Institution’s background, key strengths, weakness and the project’s development
King Fahad medical city (KFMC) is a health institution that was started with a core mission to provide best healthcare solutions to patients. The medical center has been instrumental in providing quality services that are tailor-made towards improving an individual’s health standards. In particular, it focuses its potentials in providing quality healthcare solutions to cancer, diabetes, and heart failure patients.
The center has been credited for its steadfast service delivery and provision of timely nursing care to patients. This is evident since its employees and officials are always dedicated to ensuring that patients are promptly attended to without discrimination. Indeed, the health center through its leadership has created proper modalities of ensuring that medical services are provided under quality ideals.
The modalities are aimed at promoting the adoption of best medical practices. This is essential in ensuring sustainable growth. Firstly, the modalities have enabled effective deployment of medical staff to various service centers. They have also facilitated timely procurement of basic medical equipments such as scanners, therapeutic machines and diagnostic equipments (Singh & Ramanathan, 2010).
These equipments contribute in ensuring accuracy in disease establishment and treatment. Consequently, they have promoted coordination, organization and delivery of health services.
Despite the successes that the medical center has achieved based on the identified strengths, it is faced with a challenge that may affect the quality of its services. Evident challenge that it faces is poor waste management since the institution has poor waste management plan and strategy.
Poor management of waste products could further lead to the spread of infectious diseases to various individuals. Due to this challenge, there has been an increased need for the hospital to device a more conventional technique of waste management to cushion key stakeholders from the risks that it may present. This prompted the identification of an innovative technique of waste management by a group of creative staff members.
When developing the technique, the group that I led considered its safeness, cost implication, and its environmental effects. The group identified waste recycling as the most viable technique that holds the capacity of ensuring effective waste management in the institution.
Purpose and objective of the project
The project is set with the purpose to enable KFMC health institution to manage its waste resources effectively. This is essential in ensuring that medical wastes do not contribute in spreading various infectious diseases to individuals. Therefore, the project that is set with an objective of finding the best solution to waste products in the hospital is fundamental in enhancing safety at the institution.
The project is also set with an objective of minimizing the cost of acquiring various products that are used to aid patient treatment such as needles, water, and cotton. Indeed, the cost is reduced since the recycling of waste items to a reusable state is less expensive compared to purchasing new incentives.
Salient characteristics of the organization in which the innovation is to be implemented
As noted, KFMC is a well-managed organization with incredible salient characteristics that enable it to focus on providing quality healthcare services to patients. Firstly, the medical center has qualified personnel who hold immense medical knowledge and capacity. They are organized in working teams to provide working solutions to various issues that affect individuals and operation in the institution.
Notably, the employees are the once who are regarded as key pillars that will ensure absolute realization of the new project’s objectives. Their contribution will be significant in ensuring effective waste management since the project requires holistic participation of stakeholders (Singh & Ramanathan, 2010).
Imperatively, waste recycling project has been identified as the key project that should be executed urgently due to the evident effects of waste materials, especially in the hospital. This is evident since waste management or disposal has been a major concern in the institution. The concern has been raised by both staff members and patients who noted that poor disposal of waste materials might lead to the spread of some infections diseases.
They also noted that poor disposal of waste materials that is occasioned by a lack of adequate resources and recycling plans could jeopardize the health status of individuals. The stakeholders felt that the institution’s management was not doing what was required to facilitate effective management of wastes. They cited that the management had failed to develop proper waste management strategies or accord it the requisite attention as they do to other projects.
Variably, the organization has good organization structure, performance policies, and operating strategies. The structure that it operates under facilitates coordination of activities and communication between key departments. It also fosters the sharing of information and execution of activities since it creates a favorable environment that aids stakeholder participation in decision making.
The institution also has good structural policies and operating strategies that guarantee the provision of support to any innovative idea that is generated. These salient characteristics that the institution holds will contribute immensely in ensuring holistic implementation of the identified project.
Key issues, statement of the problem to be addressed by the innovation, difficulties and alternative solutions
Poor disposal of waste has been a major problem in most institutions. This is because of inferior waste management practices that do not promote waste recycling. The practices focus on informal waste disposal that leads to environmental complications (Potthoff, 2010). In the US, waste management is being given priority, especially in the health sector.
Authorities’ in the nation are keen on ensuring effective recycling of waste materials to reduce the cost of acquiring basic materials and improve safety standards in hospitals. This explains why waste recycling concept that is being introduced in KMFC health center is of relevance to the patients and employees of the institution.
The innovation seeks to eradicate the perennial problem of waste management that has been affecting the institution’s operations by providing an amicable solution. The solution is cost-effective, socially relevant and medically sustainable. It will ensure that the disposal of waste items that are used in the hospital such as blood, needles, cotton, and scalpers are recycled appropriately.
The recycling process is innovatively designed to ensure that the waste materials are not dumped in an irresponsive manner but, are utilized optimally (Potthoff, 2010). This will reduce the cost of acquiring new medical incentives and the spread of infectious diseases that the wastes may expose an individual either knowingly or unknowingly.
Why the innovation was chosen
The innovation was chosen as a requisite measure to enable the hospital to maximize its resources through recycling. It is a viable project since it seeks to promote sanity and effective management of used materials or gadgets at the hospital (Potthoff, 2010).
It will provide great relief to both staff members and patients who have been raising concerns about poor management of waste products that are generated. Indeed, innovation is well thought and developed as a measure that will enable the hospital to enhance its hygiene conditions.
Description of the innovation, its feasibility nature, results and cost implication
The innovation is bound to be feasible since it will be executed under a clear plan of activity. Firstly, the problem of waste management that the hospital faces is to be fully identified. The proper budget of its execution has been drafted with great accuracy. Its significance and time limit has also been identified. The evident proper planning and estimations made by the project initiators show clearly that the project is bound to be successful (Potthoff, 2010).
The project initiators are also determined to ensure that the project’s objectives are met by creating alternative solutions or approaches such as burning the materials in tackling the problem. Consequently, the medical center has corporative management, effectual operating policies and a flexible operating structure that will advance synchronization of activities.
The structure will also facilitate stakeholder participation in the process. It is also evident that the project will succeed since it has been endorsed by the management who are also sought to have a credible waste management system. Variably, the implementation of innovation is set to be economically sustainable.
This is because the recycling processes will not be cost involving as compared to purchasing or producing new materials (Potthoff, 2010). For instance, the recycling process of drug containers will entail proper cleaning and re-freshening. Other waste materials such as water, sewer products, and cotton wool will also go through less costly purification processes or treatment.
The project’s initiators role in developing innovation and its implementation
The initiators of the project played a key role in establishing and developing innovation. Their main aim is to see effective management of waste products at the hospital that provides quality healthcare services. The idea for generating this innovation came into their mind as a result of continued suffering by patients and other stakeholders due to the side effects that poor waste management is exposing them.
Therefore, the group saw the need to generate an effective idea or strategy to ensure that the menace that has been compromising individual’s health status is contained holistically (Potthoff, 2010). Each member of the group including myself made significant contributions professionally and technically.
The contributions of each have led to the crafting of the whole idea and its key deliverables including how well it should be implemented. Consequently, each member has a role to play during the implementation process. The roles range from the execution of a detailed feasibility study of the project, budgeting, designing of the projects deliverables and evaluation of its capacity.
How projects leadership relates to overall leadership responsibility and style
Effective leadership of such a project requires proper coordinating, organizing, administration and interpersonal skills. These skills are vital in ensuring proper execution of essential activities from the initials stages to the end. They depict the capacity of an individual to drive the projects operations without deviating from institutional core objectives (Singh & Ramanathan, 2010).
Indeed, the project provided me a platform to test my leadership ability. It enabled me to identify my leadership and management potentials that will remain instrumental in facilitating the execution of my overall responsibilities. The successful coordination of activities enhanced my confidence levels as a manager. This shows that I can as well work execute overall managerial duties effectively.
Consequences of the innovation, results and its implementation timelines
The innovation will present positive and negative consequences to both the institution and stakeholders. Firstly, it will enable the institution to minimize wastage of resources especially in the current environment where medicinal resources are becoming scarce. It will also promote the effective management of waste products by ensuring that they are not poorly dumped.
Thirdly, the innovation will curb the spread of infectious diseases that have been threatening to affect an individual’s performance capacity in most settings. Fourthly, the innovation will also promote environmental conservation by averting possible pollution of the environment by medical wastes. These elements explain the imperativeness of the concept that is to be implemented in a record time of four weeks.
They will facilitate proper management of activities and hygiene at the hospital. However, critics of the idea noted that the idea might require immense resources. They are justifying their position by indicating that, successful implementation of the project requires the hiring of more personnel especially individuals with high competency in the recycling of medical wastes.
Conclusion
Indeed, the project is bound to steer the institution to a greater height of performance and service delivery. It will enable the institution to execute its services in a conducive environment that is not contaminated with hazardous materials. This will enhance the safety of patients and other stakeholders within the vicinity since effective of the waste materials will ensure that they are not exposed to harmful items.
References
Potthoff, S. (2010). Principles of Problem Solving in Health Care Organizations. Web.
Singh, J. & Ramanathan, A. (2010). Solid waste management: Present and future challenges. New Delhi: I.K. International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.