Geriatric Change

A professional change that the author is passionate about changing is to moving back to working with the geriatric population. This author has not been working in a healthcare facility and performing patient care for approximately 12 years. After obtaining my master’s degree in Healthcare Operations Management, I would like to find a position of directing a geriatric facility. I really enjoy working with the geriatric population and I find that as individuals are living longer there is a greater need for geriatric health care and geriatric facilities. I want to provide this population a safe environment for them to live in during the last years of their life.

Any type of large change will involve individuals to believe in that change, there can be numerous barriers to creating this change. The change this author is proposing is a …show more content…
According to Kotter (2012) organizations need to eliminate barriers by inspiring and encouraging the employees to see the vision of change. One barrier that organizations are prone to is inadequate training. According to Kotter (2012) we require employees to change their behavior with providing minimal training. This may also be a large barrier to changing the culture of a geriatric facility, employees will need to learn and improve social skills and improve attitudes as well as making sure they are qualified to provide care to the …show more content…
According to Kotter (2012) the eight processes need to occur for change to become successful, you need a continued level of urgency, you need a power-driven partnership, you need an influencing vision, you need strong communication, you need to remove the barriers, you need to work in smaller tasks to achieve one big task, and you need to change the culture so change is the