Running head: CHANGE 2
Change in the North Bay Hospital Change is a part of every profession, and is seen in the nursing field through new policies, advances in technology, and changes in the delivery of healthcare. There is planned and unplanned change and both have positive and negative impacts on the healthcare field as a whole. It can effect the people on a personal level and at an institutional level as well.
Trigger Event Over the course of my shadowing shifts at the hospital, the change that was occurring throughout the entire hospital was evident. I heard of budgeting cuts that lead to cancellations of programs, lay offs, and other factors that made the the staff on the floor feel uncertain as to the future of the hospital. A program that was cut on the Complex Continuing Care Unit was the “Breakfast Club” where volunteers and other staff would come and assist the patients in eating their patients. I was there during one of the first days after it was cancelled, and I saw how much more busy the nurses were and how they struggled as the majority of the patients have to be fed. Throughout my time there I heard of the potential for layoffs and on my last shift my nurse made me aware of the fact that she was one of …show more content…
The negative and positive side effects though take time to get used too and can be difficult in the moment to deal with. When the “Breakfast Club” program was cancelled on the Complex Continuing Care Unit, it was hard for the nurses to initially adapt, as they had become reliant on this program to make make their mornings easier to manage. To compensate though, my nurse along with other nurses on the floor, came up with a new system to implement in the mornings. They have had to adjust when it was realized that some things work better
Change in the North Bay Hospital Change is a part of every profession, and is seen in the nursing field through new policies, advances in technology, and changes in the delivery of healthcare. There is planned and unplanned change and both have positive and negative impacts on the healthcare field as a whole. It can effect the people on a personal level and at an institutional level as well.
Trigger Event Over the course of my shadowing shifts at the hospital, the change that was occurring throughout the entire hospital was evident. I heard of budgeting cuts that lead to cancellations of programs, lay offs, and other factors that made the the staff on the floor feel uncertain as to the future of the hospital. A program that was cut on the Complex Continuing Care Unit was the “Breakfast Club” where volunteers and other staff would come and assist the patients in eating their patients. I was there during one of the first days after it was cancelled, and I saw how much more busy the nurses were and how they struggled as the majority of the patients have to be fed. Throughout my time there I heard of the potential for layoffs and on my last shift my nurse made me aware of the fact that she was one of …show more content…
The negative and positive side effects though take time to get used too and can be difficult in the moment to deal with. When the “Breakfast Club” program was cancelled on the Complex Continuing Care Unit, it was hard for the nurses to initially adapt, as they had become reliant on this program to make make their mornings easier to manage. To compensate though, my nurse along with other nurses on the floor, came up with a new system to implement in the mornings. They have had to adjust when it was realized that some things work better