Lewin's Three Step Change Theory Essay

The situation that I acted as leader and change agent is when I worked in a med/surg floor, we used to have the endorsement to be given in group. The unit educator would supervised the endorsement and write notes. At that time I have to come half-hour earlier to catch the meeting and I really like the way that this unit work because having more than one nurse to write notes and any changes occurred at the prior shift will minimize the risk of misunderstanding or miscommunication. Other units do not follow this procedure. During the meeting I felt its boring sometimes, especially if the report is not for one of your patients. Therefore, I suggested that in every shift, a nurse should perform a small presentation regarding a health related issues, environmental issues, or any topic related to nursing. I present this idea to the nurse educator and she was excited for it and made a schedule that contains the topics and the assigned nurse. The morning routine for the meeting was having the
In this theory, Lewin described the change process in three phases, unfreezing, movement and refreezing. During the first step, the existing situation was routine and boring. At this stage motivation to bring the change was used in order to achieve unfreezing. The second step in Lewin’s three step change theory is movement. In this stage, the action was taken which is persuading the nurse educator to implement the change. The final step is refreezing, which means that the action has been implemented and enforced by the unit policy. The second change theory that applies to this situation is the theory of planned behavior. The aim of this theory is to predict the individuals’ intention to engage in a behavior. The major factor that contribute to this theory is perceived behavioral control on the important skills or resources to implement the behavioral change (Kritsonis,