HSA 3110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act
Document Summary
The impact of change the trends and issues in the healthcare setting reflect the reality in every stage of the life cycle of the organization, as well as in its attendant survival strategies. Managers, as the visible leaders of their units, assume the function of change agents. The managers are good and making change go from challenging to stable and routine. This is done by: mediating imposing change, monitoring future issues, creating a change-ready environment, taking lead to accept change. Managers foster a change-ready environment by reminding the work group of successful changes. Funding such a major project (change) becomes part of the challenge. The routinization of change: the patient self-determination act of 1990. End-of-life care and related decisions have always been a part of the healthcare environment. However, technological change (e. g. , advances in life support systems) along with definitive court cases led to a renewed interest in these issues.