NURS 8502 Organizational Readiness Assessment

NURS 8502: Organizational Readiness Assessment Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Course Name Instructor’s Name Due Date NURS 8502: Organizational Readiness Assessment Introduction Organizational readiness is a critical component of implementing successful change in healthcare practices. Organizational Readiness for Implementation Change (ORIC) is a helpful tool to assess the ability and willingness of an organization to adopt a new practice (Leslie et al., 2022). The assessment of organizational readiness will involve input from stakeholders, along with the Organizational Readiness Form, to maximize an assessment of organizational readiness in implementing structured bedside shift reports. What is the practice problem? The practice problem is ineffective communication during nurse-to-nurse handoffs that currently occur at the nursing station rather than at the patient's bedside. This handoff approach at the nursing station limits patient engagement, contributes to communication errors, and reduces patient satisfaction, bringing about potential patient safety concerns. What are the real or perceived impacts of the problem? Ineffective communication can lead to real impacts, including complications, errors in treatment, lengthy hospital stays, and decreased patient satisfaction scores. The perceived influences of this problem are potential resistance to changing the existing working pattern and nurses' concerns about increased time requirement for bedside reporting. Jimmerson et al. (2021) described that an adapted form of bedside shift report could be warranted, despite time deficits and nurses' workflow. Through these interventions, proble...