Stakeholders and Drivers for Change
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The change that is required in the hospital consists of implementing safety procedure for the children. This is mainly because the hospital takes care of children and aim at providing them with the best is so that they can region the society after being fit. The vision is to ensure that none of the children suffers from harm during the stay at the hospital and the scope is to provide assistance in terms of convincing the employees about the need for change. The change implementation can help hospital to gain an opportunity of success in the hospital sector in Riyadh.
The key drivers for the change are the stakeholders. The Hospital stakeholders are the healthcare providers. A Just Culture survey was conducted to the employee, the most lowest domain was the Perceptions Of Senior Management. That made the improvement of patient safety cultureneed to be mandated by the hospital leader to. This can help in making the change legal and ensure that the employees abide by the rules and regulations that are to be imposed after the implementation of the changes at the hospital.
The purpose of the change is to ensure that the hospital patient remain safe from any type of harmful activities that may cause severe health issue or injuries.
The objective mainly amid to provide a safe healthy environment in which children can be diagnosed so that they can reclaim their health and become a normal member of the society. The expected outcome of the change is that the hospital can improve its reputation as the safest hospital in Riyadh. It can increase the profit of the hospital and ensure that parents of the children trust in the hospital for any type of emergency needs.
- Increase the staff’s knowledge and skills of hospital’s safety culture assessment to 96% by end of 2018.
- Improve the hospital’s safety management effectiveness which relates to patient safety culture to 50% by the end of 2018.
- Increase the safety healthcare service practice to 95% by end of 2018.
- Promote management effectiveness to 90% by the end of 2018.
The hospital stakeholders includes the hospital leader, employees and patients. The key role of the stakeholders is to ensure that the hospital continue to improve and assist the people so that they can be cured of any disease in a safe manner. In this regard, the leaders play the most vital role in ensuring the implementation of changes and providing high level of satisfaction about the safety of the hospital. The senior management need to take up the leadership role in the form of democratic leadership style so that opportunities for suggestion of improvement can be welcomed from all stakeholders.
Purpose and Objectives
The shift to a more constructive “Just Culture” from the traditional “Blame Culture” can have different types of tangible benefits that will play a key role in the overall safety culture in the hospital by focusing on two crucial, concepts:
- As humans will monitor the situation errors can be inevitable which may lead to problems. Therefore continuous monitoring must be in place to ensure that such errors are given proper attention
- Different individuals are accountable for the actions if they purposely continue to violate the safety procedures and policies
Therefore, the Implementation should mainly focuses on creating and implementing a Just or Accountability Culture policy.
The sequence actions required for implementation of the change is that the hospital leaders need to support the implementation of Just Culture policy.
The following are the sequenced actions required for implementation:
- Developing a Just Culture policy:
It is important to establish policy and procedures setting the organization’s expectations in employing a Just or Accountability Culture in managing patient safety events and determining fair and consistent courses of actions toward staff involved in such events, to promote an atmosphere of trust and confidence among all levels of employees in the hospital.
- Improving Error Reporting:
In order to reduce the different legal complications that are involved in reporting, the two most important issues that have been identified are as follows:
- Securing the employee against disciplinary actions if they report incident
- Keeping in place a regulatory legal framework that adheres to the reporting of each and every incident. Some of the first steps of errors include;
- The current legal situation is not taken care of or is seen in a small viewpoint
- Discussing the different ways of whether any kind of change is actually possible or feasible enough.
- Discuss with the officers involved in the operations department on what changes in the legal policy they think would improve incident reporting.
- Review the Incident Report Policy and Procedures
- Confidentiality of reports.
- Leader commitment to Patient Safety and No Blame culture concept.
- A certain degree of independence must be granted to the Risk Management Department.
The hospital leaders are the most responsible group in implementing the changes is the. This is mainly because it is the duty of the leaders to ensure thatthe changes are brought about properly without the intervention of any external or internal factors. It is also the responsibility of the employees to ensure that the changes are implemented is sustained in a proper manner so that advantage can be gained in the hospital. At the same time, the duty of the patients and their caregiver is to ensure that they are taught about the importance of discipline and the fact that they need to abide by the rules of the hospital for getting a proper treatment.
The timeframe that will be required for the completion of the action can be 7 months. This is mainly because the reason for the implementation of changes needs to be communicated with the employee and need to be discussed about its implementation. At the same time, it is also necessary that the resources required for implementing the changes be collected. Therefore, based on these tasks 7 months can be enough to complete and implement the changes that are required for success in thehospital (please refer to the time table in the relevant information section).
Since the patient safety is everyone’s responsibility, the actions need to be applied and communicated to all the patient care area (inpatient, outpatient, and ancillary areas).
Timeline for Implementation
The performance measurement can be done by assessing the contribution of the employees and the effectiveness of the change undertaken after every six months. This can help in analysing the changes and make proper rectifications in the case of errors. At the same time, quality of the change can be brought about by the implementation of total quality management so that cleanliness of the hospital can be maintained. This can lead to the improvement of change in the hospital and ensure that the effectiveness of the hospital can exist.
The team will focus on the project’s ability to achieve its objectives, mentioned earlier. The evaluation will be determined by the ability of the change to achieve the objectives intended, hence making the objectives the tools for measurement of performance which will be determined by every project members’ attitude, skill and knowledge besides overall teamwork effort being given to the project’s success. Also, it will focus on ensuring that the strategies and methods used are either formulated or changed or that they are completely different from those used earlier. They will simply be evaluating the change’s failures and success rates by accessing its ability and capability of achieving its objectives and purposes in general. It should therefore be able to increase and improve the patient safety culture in the hospital hence making the patients more comfortable.
No. |
KPIs |
Measurement tools |
1 |
Increase the feedback of incident report to 100% |
Internal Auditing |
2 |
Increase just culture to 90% |
Safety culture survey |
3 |
Increase the staff’s awareness and skills of safety practice to 90% |
Patient Safety Culture Survey |
4 |
Increase the staff’s satisfaction of safety management to 90% |
Patient Safety Culture Survey |
5 |
Increase the staff’s compliance of incident report protocol to 90% |
Internal Auditing |
6 |
Reduce the rate of mortality cause from advent events to 5% |
Morbidity and Mortality Committee |
7 |
Reduce the rate of advert event to 4% |
Safety Reporting System database |
8 |
Reduce the rate of morbidity cause from advent event and medical errors to 10% |
Safety Reporting System |
9 |
Increase the quality standards of the services offered to 96% |
Patient Safety Culture Survey |
10 |
Increase the accountability rates for the actions taken by the hospital’s staff |
Quality and Patient Safety committee Action Plan |
Resources form an important part for the change management process. The presence of proper resources and a proper flow of the resources supply is helpful for the success of the project plan in this particular case.
As mentioned earlier the absence of appropriate resources will affect the hospital the reputation to be the safest hospital in the region. The presence of proper resorces is essential for the following project. The first and foremost resource in the form of human resource is the selection of the appropriate leader to carry forward the following task. The leader who will be selected must have a detailed idea of the hospital and should get the detailed description about the actual changes needed. The second resource in these regards is the appointment of different employees who will be engaged in completing the total project properly. Apart from this the management of the change must also ensure the reallocation or the transformation or in some cases the development of the existing systems of security within the hospital which can help in savings. The other main resources needed for the implementation of this particular project is the financial resources and the installation of a cultural training program within the policies of the organization.
The estimated project cost along with an estimated budget surplus has been provided in the list below;
Jan 2019 |
Feb 2019 |
Mar 2019 |
|
Amount(SR) |
Amount(SR) |
Amount(SR) |
|
Sources for income |
|||
Government grant |
1000000 |
1100000 |
1210000 |
Loan from bank |
0 |
250000 |
300000 |
Total |
1000000 |
1350000 |
1510000 |
Expenditure |
|||
Premises |
1000000 |
0 |
0 |
Human resource expenditure |
100000 |
100000 |
200000 |
Material |
500000 |
600000 |
400000 |
Technical expenses |
20000 |
40000 |
30000 |
Implementing Change |
100000 |
150000 |
165000 |
Risk management expenses |
2000 |
5000 |
6000 |
Total expenses |
1722000 |
895000 |
801000 |
Budget surplus |
-722000 |
455000 |
709000 |
Item |
Likely Risk and it Causes |
Preventive Actions |
Developing a Just Culture policy |
It requires adequate time and persistence to try and change the safety attitudes of the people and the behavior of the people. The maintenance of the motivation of the personnel set with the task of the improvement of the safety reporting can act as one of the greatest obstacles |
Commitment of the management- Raising proper awareness of the senior management to ensure sound and safety nature -Involving the senior level management to the reporting process to show that the company has the belief of the just culture |
Improving Error Reporting |
challenge to create and formulate a Just Culture will be to change the employee concept that they will be blamed if they report incidents. |
To state clearly in the Just Accountability Culture policy: -If an employee believes he/she has been subjected to inappropriate disciplinary measures as a result of self-disclosure, the individual may file a grievance complaint. |
Human resource |
Shortage of human resource generally undermines new services in the community: Ø Lack of people in the training facilities Ø Insufficiency to recruit locally |
Urgent attention must be provided to workforce plan Working with local partners to promote opportunities for the different kinds of local people |
The communication and the Engagement Plan is necessary for the following project as because a proper and effective communication and engagement planning will help to ensure the success of the following project. The main goals of the communication management plan will be to;
Objective 1: Building stakeholder and broader public understanding of the different mission and vision of the developmental project undertaken by the management of the organization.
Objective 2: The increase in the stakeholder and public understanding of how employees engaged in the project can participate and separate their works accordingly
Objective 1: Provide the stakeholders with early, timely and meaningful opportunities to provide input on the project and any developments on the project.
Objective 2: Identify and address the different potential barriers and threats to the effective management of the following process in the project undertaken by the organization.
A timeline of the following project will be the best information that will help to complete the following project.
START DATE |
END DATE |
DESCRIPTION |
DURATION (days) |
01-Sep-18 |
20-Sep-18 |
Discuss the action plan with the governing body |
19 |
23-Sep-18 |
04-Oct-18 |
coordination with required authorities |
11 |
08-Oct-18 |
31-Oct-18 |
Format the team for the change |
23 |
05-Nov-18 |
23-Dec-18 |
Set the Strategies for change |
48 |
24-Dec-18 |
03-Jan-19 |
Get the approval on the project Final Strategic plan and implementation plan |
9 |
06-Jan-19 |
07-Jan-19 |
Implementation Date |
1 |
01-Apr-19 |
30-Apr-19 |
Conduct Just Culture Survey |
29 |
08-May-19 |
18-May-19 |
Analysing the Survey Data |
10 |
19-May-19 |
23-May-19 |
Monitor the project Effectiveness |
4 |
Table No 1: Timeline of the Development Project
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