Evaluate leadership styles in a scenario involving a change process
Critical reflection Scenario-Based Essay
This assessment provides the student the opportunity to apply and evaluate leadership styles in a scenario involving a change process. I attached file that guided you to write the assessment.
Aim: This assessment provides the student the opportunity to apply and evaluate leadership styles in a scenario involving a change process.
Scenario
A recent state-wide quality improvement project has shown that a fully electronic medication system improves the safety of medication administration. In order to share this knowledge, the state organisation has shared the results on a quality improvement
website.
The two hundred bed hospital where you work has recently had some medication critical incidents. These critical incidents occur in the context of a general increase of minor medication errors over the last three years. The hospital’s most senior Nurse/ Midwifery Leader has reviewed the information on the state’s quality improvement website. The Nurse/ Midwifery Leader calls the Nurse/ Midwifery Unit Managers for a
meeting and advises of the general increase in medication errors and that there is an expectation that all wards will have adopted the fully electronic medication system within six months. The electronic medication system is freely available from the government and can be installed directly onto the ward computers.
Discuss how an effective Nurse/ Midwifery Unit Manager would lead this change to address this patient safety issue.
This essay will need to :
provide reasons to adopt the fully electronic medication system use Lewin’s model to outline a plan of change that includes milestones and timeframes
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