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Identify one specific leadership strategy to facilitate change, and describe how it is congruent with Kotter’s Change Model and may affect your future role.

Leadership Week 6

Describe a potential case scenario involving a MSN-prepared nurse in your selected area of practice. Within the scenario, identify a specific problem which needs to be addressed.

Examples might include a new curriculum, change in the EHR, decreasing patient satisfaction rates, safety risks, or another situation which impacts your future MSN role.

Discuss how Kotter’s Change Model would be applied in your recommended change initiative and its intended potential impact.

Identify one specific leadership strategy to facilitate change, and describe how it is congruent with Kotter’s Change Model and may affect your future role.

Define a set of criteria/attributes to evaluate the 3 vendors:Once you have developed the criteria, investigate these vendors and prepare a report that compares and contrasts them on your predefined criteria or attributes.

Comparing vendors
Visit the online certified EHR directory at and click Browse all to search.

Select a minimum of 3 vendors who appear to offer similar technology solutions.

Define a set of criteria/attributes to evaluate the 3 vendors.

Once you have developed the criteria, investigate these vendors and prepare a report that compares and contrasts them on your predefined criteria or attributes.

Submit your report for grading. Your report can be submitted in Microsoft Excel or Word format.

Implementing an electronic health record (EHR) system, which is a newly initiated technology in a culture that is resistant to change

You are the healthcare administrator for a small critical access hospital (i.e., 25 beds or fewer).

Your administration team includes the director of nursing, the chief medical officer, the director of support services, the director of pharmacy, and the health information management (HIM) director.

You and your team have been tasked with investigating a recent data breach. As the data breach was investigated, several members of the staff have been identified as being directly involved in the breach. Several patients experiencing the compromise of their PHI have filed legal claims with the intent to sue.

Your team is also accountable for implementing an electronic health record (EHR) system, which is a newly initiated technology in a culture that is resistant to change.

The board of directors has requested that you have a plan addressing both of these issues ready to present in two weeks.