Change And Innovation Theory Paper

Effectively understanding and managing changes and innovation are an essential leadership competencies. Change and innovation are undeniably required in healthcare to produce better results or to help our patients. Changes in technology and practices help patients become less sickly and help to decrease more illness. This is an essential competency for leaders because change can be hard to deal with and they need to help their staff members embrace the changes that come. According to Haber (2014), staff can resist change and will refuse to implement the new policy, in which nursing leaders need to help educate the staff and promote compliance with the new change. Innovation also goes along with change. Innovation is when something or someone implements a new idea or a new method (Haber, 2014). …show more content…
Nursing leaders need to talk with staff to help promote compliance, and help to motivate them to accept and apply the changes that are necessary to help increase productivity of patient care. Using change theories can help to promote change. Lewis' theory can help nursing leaders in a variety of ways. The theory consists of 3 different parts: unfreezing (helping to promote change and increase motivation for the changes), moving (integrating the new changes), and refreezing (stabilizing and reinforcing the new changes) (Haber, 2014). Some nurses can be quite upset at this and nurse leaders need to help minimize uneasy feelings towards the new changes. According to Irwin, Bergman, and Richards (2015), factors that help to implement change include: organizational support, communication, effective planning, and