Stakeholders: Definition
Seeing that the study is aimed at researching the opportunities for improving palliative care for adult cancer patients, palliative care nurses should be viewed as the key stakeholders. Particularly, the identified population will benefit extensively from the efforts of the study participants that will help them control the patients’ response to painful experiences. Furthermore, the nursing staff, in general, can be viewed as essential stakeholders of the research. Nurse practitioners, physicians, therapists, labor unions, etc., can be deemed as the stakeholders since the outcomes of the study affect them directly, too.
Stakeholders’ Roles in the Organization
When considering the role of the said stakeholders in the organization, one must mention the fact that the nursing g staff in question performs a variety of roles, from administrative to providing care and guidance to educating patients about their disorders. Therefore, the stakeholders’ roles are numerous and essential to the general level of patient outcomes in the context of the hospital.
Converting People to Champions
High level of commitment and accountability are the qualities that define champions in research (Spalding, Stikes, Sparks, Myers, & Logsdon, 2016). Therefore, to compel the participants of the study to become champions, one should foster qualities such as responsibility in the target audience. As soon as the research participants develop the necessary skills, one should promote them to champions by providing them with additional accountability. Thus, the sense of involvement together with the concept of responsibility will have to be encouraged among the target population. Consequently, the identified participants will become the champions that will help move the study forward, therefore, helping it become a success.
Potential Barriers
It should be noted, though, that some limitations may pose a threat to the success of the study. The potential barriers include the time constraint, the possible lack of engagement among the nursing staff, the issues associated with the employee shortage in the nursing environment (e.g., the notorious burnout statistics that points to the busy schedule being the key problem triggering a drop in nursing quality levels, etc.) (Bogaert, Dilles, Wouters, & Rompaey, 2014). However, the issue associated with the lack of engagement among the nurses and, therefore, the subsequent drop in the quality of the services provided by them should deemed as the primary area of concern.
Strategies for Managing the Barriers
The barriers in question can be removed by introducing the tools that will allow for efficient time management, as well as the active engagement of the staff members into the process of meeting patients’ needs. The time issue will need to be handled by reconsidering the current schedule, as well as suggesting that the nurse administrator should redistribute roles and responsibilities among nurses in a more homogenous manner. As a result, a reduction in the burnout rates and, therefore, a rise in the engagement levels among the nurses can be expected.
Furthermore, the significance of new knowledge and skills acquisition as part and parcel of continuous professional growth will have to be outlined to the nurses.
Change Theory
The Herzberg two-factor motivation theory seems to be the most efficient tool for promoting change in the target environment. Helping illuminate the possibilities to the staff members, the theory in question compels them to acquire the necessary skills and knowledge that will, later on, guide them to self-directed learning (Holmberg, Caro, & Sobis, 2017).
References
Bogaert, P. V., Dilles, T., Wouters, K., & Rompaey, B. V. (2014). Practice environment, work characteristics and levels of burnout as predictors of nurse reported job outcomes, quality of care and patient adverse events: A study across residential aged care services. Open Journal of Nursing, 4(5), 343-355. Web.
Holmberg, C., Caro, J., & Sobis, I. (2017). Job satisfaction among Swedish mental health nursing personnel: Revisiting the two-factor theory. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 1(1), 1-12. Web.
Spalding, G., Stikes, R., Sparks, K., Myers, J., & Logsdon, M. S. (2016). Research Champions: An initiative to improve use of research evidence in nursing practice. Journal for Nurses in Professional Development, 32(2), E1–E5. Web.