Critiquing a Change Effort: The Intended Outcomes Research

Critiquing a Change Effort
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Critiquing a Change Effort
Organizations are spending chunks of cash in budgetary allocations in improving business processes as well as the overall business performance. The change initiative is inspired by the fact that the change in business today is sparking more benefits compared to the cost of change implementation. In achieving the desired change, firms are structuring change approaches to ensure a thorough but smooth implementation (Kilpatrick et al., 2013). The ultimate goal in the smooth structuring of change is to ensure the achievement of long-lasting benefits from the change implementation. Without a doubt, change is unavoidable given the trend in the environment within which organizations are operating.
With the aid of passionate professionals in the nursing sector, such as Florence Nightingale, the shifts in the nursing profession have been so instrumental in improving service delivery. It takes a lot of work from the agents of change to initiate and implement change within organizations and impact positively on all the areas of the firm. On the impact that the change may have on the organization as well as the stakeholders as a whole, there ought to be a proper strategic plan for implementing the change (Kilpatrick et al., 2013).
In my organization, we are used to making use of staffing grids in managing productivity. There was a need to introduce change by making use of revised staffing matrices. The increased Staffing Matrix would aid in narrowing down the ratio of nurses per patient. The newly revised matrix also ensured a reduction in the other support staff like the secretaries, clinical technicians and receptionists (Barefield & Meyer, 2013). My responsibility as the nurse in charge of the orthopedic department, is ensuring that the patients' needs are met with the most appropriate staffing levels and skills. Even while ensuring that my responsibility is taken care of and at the best level possible, I have to make sure that I keep within the budget. Bearing in consideration the initial staffing matrices, they did not take into account the numerous activities involved in patient care. On the shortfall of the Staffing Matrices, t...