NUR 590 Topic 2 Assignment; Organizational Culture and Readiness
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Evidence-Based Practice Project: Organizational Culture and Readiness
Most health organizations have and are adopting evidence-based practice (EBP) to ensure improved patient care outcomes which are individual-centered and quality. These institutions must identify facilitators and barriers that might affect EBP implementation to ensure effective EBP adaptation (Randall et al., 2019). Organizational culture regulates how the various processes and systems operate while influencing how the workforce behaves toward attaining various goals and objectives. Thus, organizational culture and readiness determine long-term performance. Besides, change agents must assess the readiness of the organization to accept change before implementing it using diverse change tools. This study’s purpose includes assessing and describing a health organization’s readiness to implement CAUTI preventive measures among acute care inpatients.
Organizational Culture
The organization’s current cultural system is value-based. Its operations are patient- focused, culturally centered, collaborative, teamwork, and stewardship core values. All these cultural factors augment EBP implementation as there is effective communication, leadership, and coordination among the workforce. Hence, this supports the change leading to organizational growth and staff welfare enhancement (Runtu et al., 2019). Currently, the facility has embraced a transformational leadership structure. This is significant in empowering the workforce to ensure that CAUTI preventive measures are effectively implemented. This leadership type welcomes change in the facility while ensuring the staff is inspired to perform to attain the organizational mission.
Moreover, the facility has embraced interprofessional collaboration, which is crucial in change implementation (Willgerodt et al., 2020). This enhances team engagement whereby the employees work together by sharing CAUTI prevention and reduction ideas. Besides, this is attainable through effective communication across the facility using information............ Continue
