Essays on Change Theory

Integrating a Corporate Social Responsibility for Starbucks

Tilt (2016) explains that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) involves sustainable management and conduct of a business where it is ethical and socially acceptable, economically supportive and profitable. It is an umbrella concept which encompasses environmental and stakeholder management by upholding good societal performance. For Starbucks to grow into a sustainable organization, a change initiative should be undertaken against its traditional management approach. The organization needs to embrace CSR for it to become a sustainable organization. According to Tilt (2016), there are, however, intra-organization challenges which significantly affect the implementation of the change initiative. To address this issue and the ...

Lewin came up with a three-stage model that is quite essential in the nursing practice. The model involves three stages: unfreezing, changing and refreezing. The main goal of the unfreezing stage is to create awareness on how the prevailing level of acceptability is impeding the effectiveness of service delivery in the organization. Examination of the previous processes, behaviors, organizational structures, and ways of thinking is significant in showing everyone how necessary change is. Lewin states that after people have been enlightened on the need for change, then the organization can transition into the new state of being. This is ...

Discussion Question

Discussion Question 1

Professional socialization involves the interaction between health providers and their colleagues and the interaction between the health provider and the patient, family, groups, or communities. In the healthcare workplace, professional socialization occurs through nurses working together in a specific department to ensure total and quality delivery of care that ensures positive outcomes. Nurses help one another solve health care problems, assist each other during shifts, and share knowledge and skills about on how to deliver quality care. On the other hand, professional socialization between nurses and patients occur when both have close relationships. The Orlando’s ...

A time when I had to make a change in my personal life was when I felt I had to transform from childhood to adulthood. This was in my adolescent years and I had to embrace the biological changes and social factors that had come with age. A change theory that would apply to my situation is the behavioral change theory. According to In Riekert et al. (2014), the behavioral change theory encompass the factors taken into consideration by an individual in seeking to determine why behaviors are dynamic. These are factors such as those in the environment, learning, ...

Executive summary

This report is an analysis of the performance of Kodak over time since its inception. The report finds that the dismal performance of Kodak is largely as a result of the poor leadership elected to lead the company. The report traces the failures of the company to the hierarchical and toxic leadership styles that saw the company lag behind in joining the competitors in the migration to digital photography. The report concludes by highlighting the specific failures of leadership that cost the company a fortune had it transformed into digital promptly. The report recommends a series of actions to ...

The Brady Health Center is a neighborhood medical facility that serves a large population of African Americans and Latino Americans. The Diabetic Clinic center serves 2679 patients of which 80% are Blacks. The Hospital Management has noted a low adherence rate to diabetes self-care recommendations among the African American population. As a result, I, the nurse manager, the hospital administration and staff members are planning to implement a Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) program in collaboration with the American Diabetes Association that aims at improving patient knowledge and self-care skills.

Change Theory

As the modification manager, I intend to utilize Lippitt’s ...

Introduction

All organizations be it public or private strive to survive to progress and grow. To achieve this goal, organizations may need to change their physical infrastructure or incorporate some changes in their routine operations. These changes have always been viewed a top-down approach that is mostly induced by managers (Samuel, 2013). Due to this reason, organizational change theory has been a very useful tool for management practice. There are various and multiple information sources available today on change theories to help managers manage change in organizations. However, despite the vast amount of literature involving change management available today and ...

Introduction

Change is a perpetual in today’s fast paced world. What is modern today becomes obsolete tomorrow. New technologies mean a change in the way on thinks, learns and gets his information or uses it. Any organization may feel the challenges brought about by those new technologies and why they need to implement them within their culture. Any change within or outside an institution is sure to incite mixed reception and perception among its members and clients. The essay applies a change theory to an organizational-based on Kotter’s change model and plans a change process. The change process ...

Abstract

Kurt Lewin, the father of social psychology, developed the change theory of nursing which is a three stage change model that necessitates the rejection and replacement of all prior learning. The stages in the model consist of unfreezing, change and refreezing. The change theory consists of three concepts which include driving and restraining forces and equilibrium. The driving forces ideally push a patient towards a particular direction hence facilitating change. The restraining force, on the other hand, tries to hinder the desired change by pushing the patient away from the driving forces in the opposite direction. The restraining forces' ...

Introduction

Change is inevitable within the organizations. In essence, the organizations in the contemporary competitive environment are required to undergo changes so as to remain competitive. In other words, change is imperative for the organizations because it would be possible for them to lose their competitive advantages devoid of it. Alkaya and Hepaktan (2003) describe change as a response to some considerable opportunity or threat that arise out of the organization. It is imperative to note that change takes place when the organizations make a transition from their present state to some anticipated future state. The task of managing change ...

Cardiovascular disease remains a major life threating disease facing many American communities. The risk is higher in the underserved communities especially in the remote parts of the country which west (2014) attributes to insufficient health education. According to Ewy, managing director of the University of Arizona Sarver Heart center, there has been a decline in the number of cardiovascular diseases related deaths from 40% to the current 34% of the total deaths in the America. The improvement has been attributed to timely treatment of causal diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure among other heart diseases that continue to ...

QA Answer

The idea discussed in this article that intentional change process within a person is subject to the person’s willingness to change sense. It is true that for a person to experience any change, he or she should have the will to change. Other factors that influence change acceptance in a person as discussed in the article include one's values and motivation. This is to mean that one can change if his or her will, values and motivation are positive towards the change initiative. Besides, I also find the information concerning the five discoveries of international change theory making ...

There exist an increasing number of patients with nosocomial infections at the PICU in my facility. According to Peleg and Hooper (2010), nosocomial infections are hospital acquired conditions caused by various clinical factors. Patients that suffer from nosocomial infections are those under admission of other reasons. Such individuals should not have displayed signs of active infections before admission. Thus, nosocomial conditions happen up to 48 hours after admission and 72 hours upon discharge (Peleg & Hooper, 2010). This essay concentrates on nosocomial infections contracted by patients in acute care hospitals. It focuses on the prevention of various kinds of diseases ...

The main objective of this study is to understand, evaluate and analyze the fateful sentinel event, which struck Mr. B, who was sixty- seven years old and was taken to the Emergency Department (ED) of a sixty bed rural hospital. Mr. B complained to Nurse J of rigorous pain in his hip and left leg after he lost his balance and fell after tripping over his dog. The ED physician and nurse after thorough medical check up treated Mr. B. However, within thirteen minutes of the treatment procedure, Mr. B's health started deteriorating. He was kept on ventilator and was ...

The Sage CollegesFall 2014

Nursing and Social Media Introduction The use of social media has impacted many organizations. The nursing profession has not been left behind in the use of social media, with nurses using social media to give information to their target groups and reaching out to a larger group of people within a short period of time. This paper, will, therefore, discuss changing the working environment in nursing through the use of social media.

Discussion

Diabetes, according to CDC (2014), has been identified as the one of the leading causes of death (7th) and disability in the USA. This has called for ...

Background in Nursing

I obtained my bachelor’s degree in nursing six years ago. Following graduation and licensure, I was employed in a rehabilitation center. Most of the patients I cared for were post-stroke in need of therapy to achieve optimum functioning and the best quality of life possible. Thus, the care I provided consisted of secondary and tertiary prevention. After one year in the center, I was employed in the adult medical-surgical unit of a community hospital caring for patients with the same conditions as that in rehabilitation but in the acute phase of their illness. The hospital’s nursing service is Magnet ...

Implementation of a Patient Fall Prevention Program

Stakeholders are those groups or people who are responsible or have a particular interest in the prevention of patient falls in a hospital or a healthcare setting. The nurses, patient, and the family are stakeholders who are engaged in the patient fall prevention program. Nurses play an important role in the patient fall prevention program. It is the duty of the nurse to ensure that the patient is safe and secure. The nurse aide would assist the nurse in the evaluation and documentation of the patient’s environment, tasks and plan. The treating medical provider review specific types of rehabilitation therapy for ...

Part I

Considering the theory of diffusion of innovation and other change theories such as Levin’s Change Theory or King’s Theory of Goal Attainment what, do you perceive as the various strengths or weaknesses of each when considering change projects in the workplace? Why would you choose the use of one theory over another? Diffusion of innovation theory has the following strengths. Rogers the inventor had the ability to evaluate thousands of studies enabling him to integrate a huge volume of empirical data, which has ensured relevance even in the modern age. The theory is consistent with most conclusions ...

- Introduction Amayatakul writes that “electronic medical record (EMR) is a digital version of a paper chart that contains all of a patient’s medical history from one practice. An EMR is mostly used by providers for diagnosis and treatment (Amayatakul, 2012, p.19).” This indicates that Electronic medical records will act as a supplement to nurse practitioners in that healthcare service will be efficient, which will be beneficial to both the patient and the staff members (Anderson, 2005, p.123). In addition, a nurse practitioner need electronic medical record as a way of keeping track of the patient’s past records. This will help the ...

ANALYSIS OF AN NGO: THE CASE OF AMREF

Analysis of An NGO: The Case of AMREF The 1950s in Africa was the beginning of decolonization. Kenya at this time was experiencing social and political unrest. Six years before Kenya’s declaration of independence from the British, an NGO, the African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF) was established by three doctors to address the health needs of populations whose access to medical services was very minimal. This paper looks into formation and operations of AMREF from a Regime Theory Perspective. It attempts to explain the beginnings of the NGO, the international system that gave rise to the NGO, and ...

Introduction

Every organization has to undertake the critical process of employee selection and development at some point. Organization development is responsible for ensuring that organizations are run based on the laid down policies. For example, decisions made in the organization must be aligned to a specific part of the organization. Organizations are like living organisms; they operate in combination of different processes. Organizational development entails a cycle where efforts are made to measure, manage, adapt to and create desirable results within a target organization. Organizational development is a wide field of study that covers the economic, social, political and interpersonal aspects of humanity in ...

Clinical Excellence

In a society that is as wealthy and as medically advanced as the United States is today, it is difficult to imagine that there exist shortages of anything, including medical supplies. It would seem that a priority would be given to ensure that all necessary medical supplies would be available at all facilities throughout the country. It would be most expected that the private, for profit, healthcare facilities that could afford to pay for all of the medical supplies that it needed would be fully stocked at all times. Shockingly, this is not the case.

The United States is a capitalistic society. ...

The management of chronic diabetes self-care programs is mainly the responsibility of the patient. In primary care, nurses normally emphasize the prevention of complications and adherence to diabetes self management regimes. However, compliance to diabetes self-care programs is always a challenge for many diabetes patients. Diabetes self-management programs require patients to make many lifestyle and dietary changes. Diabetes patients need to be highly motivated to adopt and conform to the lifestyle changes in diabetes self-care programs (Perry & Collins, 2009). This paper describes the process of implementing a protocol for motivational interviewing for diabetes patients at Ben Taub Hospital in Houston, Texas. ...

Patient falls in inpatient settings

This paper will focus on the following components of the study, data collection and measurement, expected outcomes of the study, implementation of change, and evaluation of the impact of the change.

Data collection and measurement

Data will be collected via a semi structured interview. The study participants will be asked to provide demographic data such as gender, age, working experience, and level of education. The questions contained in the interview guide will be designed to acquire information related to the organizational system, attitudinal and other factors that prevent the successful adoption of evidence-based fall prevention practices by nurses. The interview questions will be framed ...

Introduction

This promotional campaign aims at achieving gender equality among students in China where there is no gender equality. The focus is therefore to promote the women empowerment so that women in china can attain a better position of Chinese economy. The present situation in Chinese rural population indicates that the gender inequality has been a major problem and as a result, there is no full utilization of human capital. As such, the given promotional campaign targets to achieving a higher retention rate of girls in schools. This can only be possible by marketing in the social way and aimed at the parents of ...

What has been the evolution of development theories since the “linear stages” period? Have these theories added value to the understanding/explaining the causes of underdevelopment? Give reasons for/against your position.

Among the many fundamental questions that continue to confound economists today, is the issue, what are the causes of economic growth and decline? Economic theories have emerged to locate, understand, and thus, develop the reasons behind the successes and failures of economies. While the original answers for this question were in the form of simple theories, nowadays, the complexity of this question has been better understood as these theories ...

Abstract

Global warming is a natural phenomenon that has resulted in continued increase in temperatures of land masses, water bodies, and atmosphere on earth. This phenomenon has been proved to occur at a rapid rate and would result in negative effects to humanity, environment, and social systems. There is however scepticism in the cause of global warming. One opinion is that it is human induced while the other is that it is just a consequence of climatic change. The paper analyses two opinions bringing out their similarity and differences.

Introduction

“The term ‘global warming’ is used to mean the continued rise in temperature of ...

Overview/ Summary

The ‘Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Oncology Nurse’s Knowledge and Attitudes’ is a research paper whose main purpose is to describe the knowledge and attitudes of a number of oncology nurses on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The research paper takes the design of a description and also a cross- sectional design. The research used a sample of 850 of nurses picked at random from the Oncology Nursing Societies. All these nurses were RNs who were directly involved with health care. The setting of the research was at a national medical center and research institute. The main variables of the research were complementary and alternative ...

1.1 Overview of the Topic

Middle school is a level of study that involves the transition of students from being children to teenagers, and such children are faced by both internal and external changes. Internally, they are facing the onset of hormonal changes occasioned by the onset of adolescence while externally they grapple with esteem issues and the need for freedom. Children in middle school present a complex disciplinary conundrum that requires tact and skill to manage effectively. This is in part due to idea of figuring out criteria for social interactions and in part due to minimal or lack of understanding on matters relating to ...