Employing a Culture of Change in Clinical Laboratory EnvironmentCONTENTS1.0 Introduction 2The culture of change in the clinical laboratory environment is important in the health care system. It ensures that the environment is always up to date with the most recent medical needs of patients at any given time. It is also the best way to ensure that technology has been embraced and is beneficial to […]

Relate the concept of Ability presented by author Hiatt in the ADKAR model with the concept of enable action in the Cohen and Kotter model. The concept of ability presented by Hiatt in the ADKAR model is focused on what people learn as they try to get to the point where they are able to realize new goals (PROSCI, 2017). Change in this case is […]

Problem Statement The primary goal of the health care sector is to enhance patient health outcomes. Unfortunately, most of the times, the objective is not realized because incentives and structures are not aligned for maximizing population health. Competing interests between care providers and business/financial components of healthcare usually prohibit the alignment. In a simplified explanation, care providers such as different clinicians and nurses usually have […]

Screening for Intimate Partner Violence Intimate partner violence program includes patterns of assaultive and coercive behaviors that inflict physical injury, sexual assault, psychological abuse among others to the victims. The actions are perpetrated by individuals who are or wishes to be involved in an intimate relationship with the victim and are aimed at taking control over the other partner. Issues related to intimate partner violence […]

Affordable Care Act/ PPACA The Affordable Care Act health/ PPACA reform was enacted in March 2010 as a way of making medical insurance available to more people, expand Medicaid access to individuals below the federal poverty level, and enhance low-cost innovative healthcare. Interestingly, the PPACA was to ensure that insurance plans were no longer a barrier to quality health care. Unfortunately, the act has one […]

Integrating Human Development Theories in the Curriculum With the implementation of compulsory schooling, every child who is of school age is entitled to an education. Ordinarily, among the goals of education is provide all learners with an opportunity to participate in a learning environment that is less restrictive, regardless of the learning challenges. Aligning the curriculum to meet the special needs students in a normal […]

Angelou, M. (1994). Still I Rise. Retrieved from Poetry Foundation: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/46446  The poem, “Still I rise,” by Maya Angelou is a popular piece of literature that talks about oppression of the persona figuratively. The poem has a strong message that is coded into poetic language creatively. The poem can be used to teach young people on literary skills that are at risk of being forgotten […]

Change in an organization involves many stake holders starting from the employees to the clients. The process of change usually modifies the existing state of things to a new way of doing things. The changes in organizations are usually made when a certain practice or program in the organization needs to be improved. Change usually resets the organization’s way of doing things and makes it […]

OUTCOME MEASURES Outcome measures evaluate the health status of a patient that results from the received care. Some of the typical and traditional outcome measures include health-related quality of life issues, the incidence of disease (morbidity), and survival (mortality). In the facility that I am working in, there are a variety of outcome measures that range from changes in blood pressure in hypertension patients to […]

Healthcare organizations are a complicated lot because of a confluence of professionals and administrations each holding seemingly conflicting interests, perspectives, and timelines. Addressing these innumerable issues in the healthcare system may prove difficult but not entirely impossible. The greatest challenge lies in patient safety, which is inextricably linked with organizational change especially in quality care delivery. Quality management in health care is highly significant to […]