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Leaders seek out change opportunities regularly. Innovation, critical thinking, and decision-making are key to making an impact on an organization. This assignment is designed to help you look at aspects of your own clinical practice and become a change agent in your organization. Use your current or past experience to identify a change project to implement.

Step 1: Select a topic for a change project.

• Review the following resources for potential change topic or process ideas:
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Transforming Care at the Bedside
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Hospital Inpatient Waste Identification Tool
• For process change resources: TeamSTEPPS® Pocket Guide

Step 2: Identify the context for your change.

• Describe the setting where the change will take place. For example, clinical, insurance, home health, or public and community.
• Explain who is affected: patients, nurses, leadership, and other stakeholders in the organization.

Step 3: Review the literature to find possible solutions and evidence to address your topic.

• Research sources that guide evidence-based practice to improve outcomes related to your selected topic.
• Find a minimum of three peer-reviewed articles directly related to addressing your change topic.

Step 4: Create a draft implementation plan.

• Summarize each article to explain how the evidence you gathered will help address your change topic.
• Explain how you could use the information in the research to carry out the change in your identified setting.