Prevention of Medication Errors: Change Management Implementation Plan

This report presents a change management implementation plan focused on preventing medication errors in healthcare through the strategic use of information technology. The plan outlines the necessary organizational resources, including the allocation of a dedicated staff team and financial investments in technical devices like customer relationship management systems. It identifies key stakeholders such as IT firms, community health centers, and various staff members involved in technology-based processes. The report emphasizes the importance of stakeholder involvement, especially in adapting to new technological systems, and discusses the impact of the change on the organization and its stakeholders, including financial and technological gains and improved patient safety. The implementation steps involve communication, staff education, and training. Potential barriers, such as staff understanding of the technology, are addressed, and the report provides references to support the proposed strategies.

Running head: CHANGE MANAGEMENT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
Change Management Implementation Plan
Topic: Prevention of Medication Errors with the aid of Information Technology Systems
Ashley Ballesteros
2/3/2019
Grand Canyon University
Ashley Hartman
HLT-494-O101

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Organization Resources
When the technological resources are implemented within the healthcare system, it is
quite natural that there are several organizational resources that are needed for the
implementation of the change management plan (Brown et al., 2016). First and foremost, the
organisation is targeting for the allocation of specific staff team that would maintain the
monitoring of the medication administration for prevention of further error through the
utilization of technological systems. For this the primary input of organisational resources
required for this change implementation and management plan are the technical devices like
customer relationship management system that are brought about within the organisation
through the utilisation of financial resources.
Identification of the stakeholders needed to support the implementation of the proposed
plan
For supporting the implementation plan of technological devices like health care
information management system software within the healthcare institute to reduce the
medical and medication errors there are the input of stakeholders that are needed for the
support of the implementation. The chief stakeholders of this implementation plan are the IT
forms and the community health centres that are responsible for the funding and handling the
technology (Schiff et al., 2015). The other stakeholders that are included in this change
implementation plan are the staff such as the computer has physician order entry people, the
people responsible for the barcode in medication technology, the people in responsibility of
the telemedicine software, the people in responsibility of the electronic health record software
and the people in responsibility of the patient friendly health record software.

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Importance of the stakeholders while implementing the change plan
While implementing the change plan all the stakeholders are extremely important to
take part in the change management process. This is because, while the legacy system was in
news the stakeholders had the opportunity of utilising the system in a certain way that would
be completely changed when the technological devices would be used for reducing the
medication errors for the patients (Castaneda et al., 2015). They need to understand the
change management plan and the benefits that it would bring about within the organisation
for the betterment of their services. In addition to that they need to adjust their skills and
potentials with respect to the implemented system which is new for them.
Impact this change plan will have on the organization and its stakeholders
The organisation is targeting the change management implementation today's
healthcare organisation for reducing the medication errors. It is assumed that the change
project in the healthcare administration would bring about the reduction of the medical errors
that raises the unpredictability in medical cost for the patients as well as the healthcare
organisation (Nanji et al., 2016). The susceptibility of the patient is increased due to this
which the healthcare organisation is trying to reduce to make sure that there is no negative
customer feedback. In addition to that the investment of the technological aid that is required
for installing the new technology is also helping the organisation gain financially and
technologically.
Steps of implementation
The first and foremost step for the implementation plan would be identification of the
communication plan of the stakeholders for funding the entire technology instalment along
with the delegation of the changes that are assumed to be projected to the staff.

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Next, there would be a group discussion conducted for the staff to help them identify
the factors behind the medication errors and the need for the change implementation plan.
The staffs need to be educated for the changes and the training needed for the
implementation plan to help them have a feasible usability idea of the generated information
within the healthcare system.
Potential barriers to implementing the change plan and the steps for overcoming the
potential barriers
The potential barriers that could arise during this change implementation includes
understanding the technological devices and staffs. The evaluation of functioning of technical
device under the pressure is needed to be evaluated. Apart from that the communication
between the different stakeholders for the funding of the project is needed to be done.

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References
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Castaneda, C., Nalley, K., Mannion, C., Bhattacharyya, P., Blake, P., Pecora, A., ... & Suh,
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Nanji, K. C., Patel, A., Shaikh, S., Seger, D. L., & Bates, D. W. (2016). Evaluation of
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Ashley,
Good start! I made several formatting notes above- utilize the Writing Center for
assistance with APA formatting. It’s not clear what your solution is- what IT/technical device
are you wanting to implement? With your implementation plan then, be much more specific
here. You have a general plan but expand on it and provide specifics.