Clinical Leadership and Management for Electronic Medication System Implementation

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Clinical leadership and management
INTRODUCTION
There has been a recent quality improvement project which has demonstrated that an
electronic medication system boosts the efficacy of drug administration. The organization has
already provided the outcome on the quality improvement website where hospitals are
encouraged to adopt the new system. This came as a coincidence since there is a 200 bed hospital
where I work and there have been cases of medication errors. The most senior nurses at the
hospital have reviewed the system and have realized how efficient it is. As a result, they have
called for nurses for a meeting and notifies them of the increase in errors and the need to
implement the system within a time span of 6 months.in this assignment, the reasons as or the
benefits for adopting the new system will be explored and how the Lewins three model would be
incorporated into the change (Volpi & Giannelli, 2015).The leadership style to be used will also
be discussed in comparison to another leadership style. Finally, the essay will address potential
resistance and how the resistance can be handled.
BENEFITS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ELECTRONIC MEDICATION SYSTEM
The electronic medication system has a lot of benefits to both nurses, the patients and the
hospital. The electronic medication system saves time (Dalal, Barto, & Smith, 2015). This is
because the system has the ability to prescribe medicine to different patients at the same time.
Since the system is error free, this means that there will be no time where a patient would be
subjected to the wrong medication and this means that the patients will receive the best form of
care (Saa, 2016) Since the system is interconnected to the whole hospital, different workers
would easily communicate over the computers and this will also reduce the time wasted moving

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from one department to the other just to deliver certain information (Sethuraman,
Kannikeswaran, Murray, Zidan, & Chamberlain, 2015) .An increase in the number served means
high output and this means better returns for the hospital.
LEWINS THREE STEP MODEL
The Lewins three step model has three steps that should be adhered when an organization
is in attempts to make certain changes. The three steps of this model include unfreezing,
changing and finally refreezing .During unfreezing which is the initial step, I would set the
foundation straight for the change. This would last for two months and it will involve training all
the relevant staff on how to install and use the new electronic medication system (Bakari,
Hunjra, & Niazi, 2017).I will also ensure that the training sessions are separated into bits and I
will make them as enjoyable as much so that the participants don’t get bored along the way and
develop negative attitude towards the new system. I will ensure that the focus of the training is
on the advantages of the system and how simple it is. This will really motivate the workers.
Changing is the next step in the Lewin three model. This will also last for two months
after the unfreezing stage .This is the beginning of the practical aspect of the new system in real
practice. The patients will now start having a feel of the new system (Cummings, Bridgman, &
Brown, 2015). The manual system is now phased out gradually and it should be done slowly for
the employees to acclimatize to the changes. The final step in this model is freezing and it
involves making the changes permanent. This would also take two months and this means the
whole process would last for six months. At this stage, there will be a complete transition to the
electronic medication system.