After a healthcare organization has realized some short-term wins or gains toward process change, the sense of urgency may wane. It is important for the organization to stay focused on the goal and to incorporate activities that sustain the sense of urgency for the change. This is an example of which accelerator of change?

Community Hospital is changing electronic health record (EHR) vendors. This will be a significant change for the entire organization and will affect all departments and employees. Based on past experience from implementing their previous EHR system, the hospital administration knows it must get key employees from each department trained and on board with this new implementation in order for it to be successful. Which of Kotter’s accelerators for change is administration using to build excitement and buy-in from employees for the new system?

The term used to describe when information that is not shielded and can be introduced at a trial to support a patient’s malpractice action against a hospital or physician is _____.

To help organizations change it is not necessary for the PI team to create a clear strategic vision that is simple, flexible, and easily communicated.

What is one way healthcare organizations can combat the resistance to change commonly experienced by employees during a transition?

When an employee has their job duties or workflow change, it can be common for the employee to experience grief as part of the change process.

. In a malpractice action, when there is evidence that failure to exercise due care is responsible for actual patient harm this is called _____.

During which of Lewin’s phases of change, does the change the organization has made become the new normal?

During which of Lewin’s phases of change, does the change the organization has made become the new normal?

Sites such as Hospital Compare use aggregated data to describe the experiences of unique types of patients with one or more aspects of their care. What is this data collection called?