It is necessary to overcome organizational barriers through the introduction of a skillful approach to change. Ideally, change at hospital level is bound to be and face organizational complexity. Therefore, the use of quality, diligent and effective change management strategies will help tackle any possible challenges. Finally, there is a need to start with simple changes before advancing to complex ideas since most organizations lack the maturity to handle abrupt changes. However, as earlier stated, the hospital seeks to reduce the length of stay/ excuse days. The needs assessment will consider the following legal, ethical, and socio-cultural considerations in its final stages (Weigl, 2012).
First, institutional review boards (IRBs) have a responsibility to ensure that researchers protect the privacy and dignity of their participants in health research. The researcher considers that the study needs to follow all the steps that show adherence to IRBs’ guidelines. For instance, the guidelines require that researchers protect their participants’ personal and clinical information. The move is to minimize the risk resulting from third-party access to such information (Hofmann, Lysdahl, & Droste, 2015).
Second, the participant’s social-cultural background deserves all the respect and consideration offered by the researcher. In such environments, the researcher will make all necessary efforts to ensure that participants understand the assessment’s objectives as well as the interventional plan. Professionalism would also imply that there is social-cultural competence in respecting one’s ethnicity and social positions. Finally, participants have a legal right to complete information as well as voluntary participation. As a consideration to this element, the researcher intends to offer all information required concerning the assessment on the consent form (Hofmann, Lysdahl, & Droste, 2015).
We now have a comprehensive tool that resembles the objectives of the needs assessment. However, we could still need to evaluate its effectiveness on a small scale before collecting and evaluating information on a cross-facility level. Thus, the final stages of this assessment include the following steps. First, evaluate the balance in the current assessment tool. Items considered unbalanced would benefit from revision and replacement. Second, the tool’s developer will consider restructuring the consent form and directional tips for ease of communication. Finally, we will select a small group as a pre-test representative of the final target population. It is this group that will help in making decisions on the various ways of recording and disseminating the assessment’s findings to the relevant stakeholders for implementation (Weigl, 2012).
References
Hofmann, B., Lysdahl, K., & Droste, S. (2015). Evaluation of ethical aspects in health technology assessment: more methods than applications? Expert Review Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, 15 (1), 5-7.
Weigl, B. (2012). The Value of Clinical Needs Assessments for Point-of-Care Diagnostics. Point Care, 11 (2), 108-113.
