Before launching your Pressure Injury Prevention Program, make sure your hospital is ready. Assess your organization’s readiness for such a program.
Assess Your Organization’s Readiness
To assess your organization’s readiness to launch AHRQ’s Pressure Injury Prevention Program, review Section 1 of AHRQ’s Pressure Ulcer Prevention Toolkit. Then assess your organization’s readiness for change.
One option for assessing your organization’s readiness for this initiative is to complete the Organizational Readiness Checklist at the end of Section 1 in the Toolkit.
As an alternative, your hospital leadership and potential Implementation Team leaders may want to answer the questions in Table 2 below. These questions were developed based on the checklist included in the Toolkit but were expanded for the AHRQ pilot initiative (see AHRQ’s Pressure Injury Prevention Program above), and are more specific to elements of this prevention initiative.
Table 2. Assess Your Hospital’s Readiness To Launch AHRQ’s Pressure Injury Prevention Program
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Develop a Plan To Build and Support Readiness
Review your responses to the checklist in Section 1 of the Toolkit (or the questions in Table 2 above), paying particular attention to “no” responses or low ratings. Then develop a plan to address those areas before launching AHRQ’s Pressure Injury Prevention Program; failure to do so can imperil program success. Section 1 of the Toolkit suggests ways to build and support readiness. Share your results with those who will plan and facilitate the in-person training.