NR 451 Week 6 Discussion Implementing Change Despite Resistance

NR 451 Week 6 Discussion Implementing Change Despite Resistance

Change can be hard for nurses in my personal experience with trying to implement change. “Implementation is described as an “embedding of the new intervention into routine health care systems and activities”(Andre,2017,p.1). Many nurses have resistant because many of the nurses I work with have been in their positions for years. As nurses we are taught to be flexible because you never know what may come your way. Within my facility I think I would have some resistance to implementing because the nurses view is “that not my job” or “that’s not my resident”. As I say to them it is your job to take care of every person within this facility your resident or not we are here to provide care! To help with resistance I would work out is an implementation process and go by steps. The first thing I would do would educate the nurses, this way they could ask question or share ideas. Allowing this will let the nurse we value their opinion to change. The next step would be to implement the change. We know there still may be some questions from the nurses so have an open door policy to ensure positivity. The last thing I would do is make sure everyone is adjusting to the change, is evaluating the nurses and having more in-services to keep open communication. Nurses need to open to change as our lesson states this week “we are on the road to improving the safety and quality of patient care in any healthcare setting”.

André, B., & Sjøvold, E. (2017). What characterizes the work culture at a hospital unit that successfully implements change – a correlation study. BMC Health Services Research, 171-7. doi:10.1186/s12913-017-2436-4