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PLEASE RESPOND TO THE POST BELOW USING THIS STATEMENT AS GUIDELINE.
In order to drive improvement within an organization, you cannot do it alone. Consider and describe who is essential to include in the discussion of the issue you have identified.
Why include them?
How will you ensure that you have a shared vision to move forward?
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Applying a Networked Improvement Community (NIC) may work in addressing the lack of evidenced based practice to include trauma treatment in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment programs. According to Russell et al. ( 2017) NICs feature four idiosyncrasy that maneuver as a scientific learning community; focused, guided, disciplined and coordinated. Addressing each of these principles in a data analysis plan and utilizing a NIC could make a difference in treatment outcomes for individuals with SUD.
In order for this plan to work key individuals would need to be on board. To start with the Board of Directors of the program, then the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), steak holders
( managing entity ), to the employees and the consumers. The Board of Directors are included because they are the decision-making engine of the company. They decide funding matters. The implementation of a NIC would coast money. The CEO would be needed to insure the NIC operates under the four characterizes discussed above. To manage the organization in a fashion that would collaborate with other community partners. Such at the stakeholders. The managing entity would be involved as they contribute state funded dollars and conducted audits.
The employees would be included because they would be the main individuals that would be sharing their knowledge of what is working and what is not working. Jones (2014) states, “ The vital contributors to the organization will be thrilled to apply their individual and collective talents and skills to make a difference” (p.9). The consumers are included as a means to evaluate the NIC. Is the NIC achieving its mission.
Because the SUD are devastating to individuals, families and communities a common vision would need to be developed. To ensure everyone had the shard vision to move forward everyone would need to focus on the outcome of changing lives. They would need to be guided by policy and procedures on how to improve services to provide evidenced based practice to include trauma treatment. Key individuals within the NIC would need to be committed to the work they are doing. Lewis (2015) claims:
In contrast, improvement science assumes that the knowledge contained in the
intervention will need to be activated by knowledge-building systems within an
organizations, for example strategies to mobilize a sense of shared purpose and routines
to detect and learn from variation ( p.59).
Having a well-defined plan for implementing the NIC with a clear vision could ensure that everyone at the table would assist in addressing the problem and making a difference in the field of addictions.