Implementation is a process that turns ideas and strategies into action in order to achieve your set ideas and goals. Implementation of strategic ideas is very crucial and significant in healthcare processes. Implementing a successful plan change involves five steps, including accepting and admitting the need to change, communicating the important reason for involving people in strategic plans, expanding revolution ideas through setting objectives to accomplish during implementation, and executing transformation plans; this involves sharing responsibilities involved and assessment and verifying of the strategic plans.
Evaluation and documentation of a current process in health care are very important, it involves both informative, impact and context evaluation. It is important because it provides useful guidelines for the next process, it provides important information to the stakeholders for efficiency in the next program, and it enables them to determine whether the current method was successful or not (Saldana et al., 2014). By reviewing strategies, strengths, and weaknesses, it is possible to identify gaps and regions of adjustment, making it a crucial stage in the successful implementation of plans.
If the stage is omitted, it may lead to the following problems: First, it is not able to ascertain areas of expansion from the previous program, hence the likelihood of repeating the same mistake in the new program. This is because, during evaluation and documentation, the stakeholders will be able to understand the shortcomings of the prior process. Second, waste of resources. This is because a lot of capital will be spent in the planning and implementation of the program, yet this could have been avoided if the evaluation of the previous plan had been assessed because they would have found ways to optimize resources by avoiding unnecessary procedures (Saldana, 2014). Third, the establishment of baseline study and program demonstration achievement makes it easier to measure impact; hence, the lack of time to do so will make it difficult to measure the success of the process, leading to failure and affecting the outcome.
Reference
Saldana, L., Chamberlain, P., Bradford, W. D., Campbell, M., & Landsverk, J. (2014). The cost of implementing new strategies (COINS): A method for mapping implementation resources using the stages of implementation completion. Children and Youth Services Review, 39, 177-182.
Saldana, L. (2014). The stages of implementation completion for evidence-based practice: protocol for a mixed methods study. Implementation Science, 9(1), 43.
