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Implementing interdisciplinary practice change in an international health‐care organization
Author(s) -
Reinhardt Anita C,
Keller Teresa
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
international journal of nursing practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.62
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1440-172X
pISSN - 1322-7114
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-172x.2009.01761.x
Subject(s) - workforce , multinational corporation , multiculturalism , diversity (politics) , hierarchy , health care , public relations , nursing , change management (itsm) , organizational change , knowledge management , political science , medicine , sociology , business , pedagogy , computer science , marketing , lean manufacturing , law
The current emphasis on adopting evidence‐based practice often results in the need to change interdisciplinary practice. This article describes the successful system‐wide change to evidence‐based wound care practices in a large, Middle‐Eastern health services organization using a multinational workforce. Elements within this change initiative are identified that stimulated experimentation and collaboration among members of this organization's workforce while also preserving culturally determined expectations for authority and decision‐making. The result was a system‐wide practice change accomplished through consensus‐building and interdisciplinary learning while also utilizing the strengths to be found in an established organizational hierarchy. This description of practice change among the members of a multicultural, multinational workforce provides lessons for managing a diversity of perspectives, creating consensus and accomplishing change in an environment where multiple cultural values intersect.