As a professional, you will be called upon to share expertise, inform, educate, and advocate. Your efforts in these areas can help lead others through change. In this Assignment, you will propose a change within your organization and present a comprehensive plan to implement the change you propose.

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources and identify one change that you believe is called for in your organization/workplace.
  • This may be a change necessary to effectively address one or more of the issues you addressed in the Workplace Environment Assessment you submitted in Module 4. It may also be a change in response to something not addressed in your previous efforts. It may be beneficial to discuss your ideas with your organizational leadership and/or colleagues to help identify and vet these ideas.
• Reflect on how you might implement this change and how you might communicate this change to organizational leadership.

The Assignment (5-6-minute PowerPoint presentation):

Change Implementation and Management Plan

Create a narrated PowerPoint presentation of 5 or 6 slides with video that presents a comprehensive plan to implement the change you propose.

Your presentation should be 5–6 minutes in length and should include a video with you as presenter.

Your Change Implementation and Management Plan should include the following:

• An executive summary of the issues that are currently affecting your organization/workplace (This can include the work you completed in your Workplace Environment Assessment previously submitted, if relevant.)
• A description of the change being proposed
• Justifications for the change, including why addressing it will have a positive impact on your organization/workplace
• Details about the type and scope of the proposed change
• Identification of the stakeholders impacted by the change
• Identification of a change management team (by title/role)
• A plan for communicating the change you propose
• A description of risk mitigation plans you would recommend to address the risks anticipated by the change you propose
• APA citation 3 to 5 reference within the 5 years

Website Link: Click on the following link to review one example of unethical research, this story reflects the Tuskegee Experiment.

https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study

Please review the videos below regarding research ethics.

Video: Research Ethics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbi7nIbAuMQ

Video: Ethics: Human Subject Research

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0uydNe4cQo

Video: How IRBs Protect Human Research Participants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8fme1boEbE

Reading Reflection

Read Chapter 12:  Ethical Issues and Consent

Read Chapter 13: Participant Recruitment

Discussion Board Assignment

This week there are no formal discussion board assignments. However, I will request that everyone logs in to acknowledge that they have read both chapters 12 and 13.

Article Link: Institutional Review Boards – Purpose and Challenges

An IRB has the authority to approve, require modifications in (to secure approval), or disapprove research. This group review serves an important role in the protection of the rights and welfare of human research subjects.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631034/

Participant Recruitment for Research

There are several methods for obtaining participants for your studies. Please remember that not all your participants that are recruited will be eligible to participate in your research studies.  They may be excluded based on your criteria. A prime example would be if you are conducting a study involving Asian females, you would have to exclude European males from the study, this is based on criteria, not discrimination.

https://digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/emerging-lessons/participant-recruitment-research

Sample Participant Informed Consent

The following link provides an example of a sample participant’s informed consent. Please note the components that are contained within. Many schools have their own version for the students to utilize in research. If this became a requirement in your research paper, this form would be included in the appendices section, following your reference section and would be included in your paper’s table of contents.

https://www.tcd.ie/swsp/assets/pdf/Participant%20consent%20form%20template.pdf

Take a moment to think about how you would incorporate the principles of ethics into your research. Would you willingly violate ethical principles to get your papers published or complete your studies?

How would you inform your participants regarding their rights? What would you do if you discover that a participant does not comprehend the terms of the agreement or has a language barrier? We are responsible for the well-being of our participants. This data must be included on your IRB initial application, also the methodology section of your papers much include this data.

It is also important for us to protect research data which must be secured both during and after the study. It is also our responsibility to inform the IRB that the study has been concluded and documents must be completed to reflect this change.