Making Rapid Response Real: Change Management and Organizational Learning in Critical Patient Care

by Jason D. Park

Overview

Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) are a recent innovation in hospitals that makes critical care teams available to a nurse within seconds. When these teams function properly, studies have shown that they can reduce a hospital's mortality rate by almost forty percent. Yet, in spite of the possible benefits, doctors and nurses at hospitals that have committed to adopt RRTs can be reluctant to do so.

Making Rapid Response Real discusses a study that identifies several reasons why people in organizations resist this kind of change, and offers recommendations for how leaders can fuel successful adoption of an innovative practice. Applying ideas from sociology and psychology to a management context, Jason D. Park offers research-driven insights for managers in a variety of implementation situations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761848875
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	11/11/2009
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Jason D. Park graduated with honors from Harvard University in 2006, earning a bachelor's degree in sociology. His senior thesis, Making Rapid Response Real: Change Management and Organizational Learning in Critical Patient Care, received Harvard's Albert M. Fulton Prize, which is awarded annually to the student who submits the "best thesis in the field of sociology." Jason currently resides in Chicago, Illinois, where he is pursuing an M.B.A. at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and working in operations management for McMaster-Carr, a leading industrial distribution firm.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Figures
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Acknowledgements
Chapter 4 1. Introduction
Chapter 5 2. Change Management and Organizational Learning
Chapter 6 3. Research Design and Methods
Chapter 7 4. Findings
Chapter 8 5. Calling the RRT: Individual Adoption
Chapter 9 6. Social Implementation: Organizational Adoption
Chapter 10 7. Conclusion
Chapter 11 Final Thought
Chapter 12 Bibliography
Chapter 13 Index
Chapter 14 About the Author