MANAGEMENT CHANGE

Management Changes in a Health Care Setting

Management Change in Healthcare Settings

Introduction

In today's world, the only thing that is constant is change. In order to meet your steps with the rest of the world, it is imperative to adopt these changes. But, adoption of change is not an easy task especially in organizations. It becomes difficult in an organization to adopt and accept changes because in an organization, many different people work together in a setting and, whenever change is introduced to they resist these changes. Managers adopt variegated forms, techniques and method to implement these changes. Bringing a change in an organization affects each and every aspect of the organization. This process of bringing change becomes even more difficult when the organization works in the field of healthcare. This process of change becomes sensitive because in the healthcare setting any disruption in the morale and satisfaction employees would ultimately affect the patient's outcomes. The field of healthcare has been surrounded by many issues, which involves management. The aim of this paper is to select a healthcare organization and identify a management dilemma that the organization is facing and then solving the problem of management by bringing management changes. To bring about any change in the management of any sort in any organization requires the usage of proper and efficient management way to bring about change. This paper talks about all these tools and theories related to management changes that would be implemented in a healthcare organization.

Background

One of the core and important issues that the field of healthcare faces is the lack of staff or human resources in the field of nursing. Nursing is an important component of the healthcare setting. To combat this issue, healthcare settings prefer to distribute the duties of the staff in shifts. In addition to this, health care is an industry that works 24/7 and a single person cannot work for the whole day so, there needs to be shifts. This shifting system requires handing over of patients to the staff of one shift to another. Sometimes patients are transferred from one clinical setting to another for better treatment or many other reasons. Clinical handover can be explained as the handing over the responsibility and accountability related to the care of the patient. This handover can take place from one healthcare provider or team of health care provider to another healthcare provider or team of a healthcare provider. This handover process involves many issues and dilemmas. As a result, of the process of handover various issues germinate. These issues can be resolved with the help of implementation of proper standardization. Managers who deal with the management issues of the hospitals declares that the significance of standardization can be revealed by this statement that states that one of the pivotal reasons behind improper hand over is the lack of proper structure or standard in place. The process of clinical handover is of great concern for the safety of the ...