Unit 4 Health And Social Care Case Study

1. As noted in the first part of the case, establishing a questioning culture is essential for effective evidence-based management practice. Sally, Richard, and others have made several attempts to influence the culture at AMC, some more successful than others. For example, they tried to establish regular evidence-based management workshops, and they implemented and evidence-based quality improvement project to reduce patient falls on Richard’s unit. What more could they do to influence the culture? What could they do specifically to encourage upper management to adopt a more evidence-based mind set? As suggested by Jeffrey Pfeffer, professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Sally, Richard, and others need to create a sense
Additionally, I would request evidence of efficacy for all proposed changes in an effort to encourage the use of evidence based information across the organization. As such, I would personally utilize research, evidence, and data when making decisions and would communicate such with the rest of the staff. Furthermore, I would identify and train several staff members, such as administrative assistants or health unit coordinators, that could assist in gathering researching, assessing, and compiling best evidence. Lastly, I would research wages for a professional librarian and what they can do to benefit our healthcare organization both in terms of patient safety and financial benefits. If the return on investment (ROI) was favorable, I would propose the hiring if a professional librarian to our board of directors, along with the evidence to support the
Honesty the amount of information provided was somewhat overwhelming as I first had to determine which, if any, of the websites are reputable and if I felt they were, I had to read and appraise the articles. Without conducting a true critical appraisal of the research articles, it would be very difficult to determine if the evidence was reputable. As such, not only could the search process be very time-consuming, appraising the evidence, and developing, implementing, and evaluating a change would be and enormous