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The gears of change: Influencing attitudes and practices of nurses in an evolving context

• The basics of infection control demand that an impeccable level of hand hygiene is maintained by health care providers to prevent cross-transmission of infections from the health care providers to patients.
• This vital rule of thumb is most often forgotten with adverse implications such as preventable morbidity and mortality rates and higher costs of treatment.
• As a global agenda of the WHO on patient safety, it is important to maintain these standards especially in an ever-changing pathophysiological context
• Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a crucial component of improving crucial care nursing practice, which is vital for offering quality healthcare to patients. Employing EBP in an organizational culture betters patient outcomes, and family, patient, and health care provider satisfaction (Nowak et al., 2015). It equally minimizes costs and the danger of injury by minimizing unnecessary procedures ad tests (Edmond, 2019). Most health care facilities have established competency based upon EBP programs which function to restructure care, and this has been vital in the realization of effectiveness and efficiency of interventions and minimizing risks (Dorratoltaj et al., 2017). To implement a change in EBP, there is a need for alignment of organizational objectives to address the prevailing medical concerns (Ryu et al., 2020). The first step in the process of implementing EBP is to create a culture that adopts EBP into the organization. This paper aims at creating evidence-based intervention and a change proposal for dissemination of information regarding flu and influenza to stakeholders and leaders.
• Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a crucial component of improving crucial care nursing practice, which is vital for offering quality healthcare to patients. Employing EBP in an organizational culture betters patient outcomes, and family, patient, and health care provider satisfaction (Nowak et al., 2015). It equally minimizes costs and the danger of injury by minimizing unnecessary procedures ad tests (Edmond, 2019). Most health care facilities have established competency based upon EBP programs which function to restructure care, and this has been vital in the realization of effectiveness and efficiency of interventions and minimizing risks (Dorratoltaj et al., 2017). To implement a change in EBP, there is a need for alignment of organizational objectives to address the prevailing medical concerns (Ryu et al., 2020). The first step in the process of implementing EBP is to create a culture that adopts EBP into the organization. This paper aims at creating evidence-based intervention and a change proposal for dissemination of information regarding flu and influenza to stakeholders and leaders.
• Objectives of the Interventions
• The above interventions are aimed at preventing and/or minimizing the spread of the flu and influenza from one person to another.
• Change Proposals
• There are three principal change proposals aimed at minimizing the spread of the flu. First regards health promotion. Health promotions should largely stress the significance of people understanding health behaviours in their social environment, and governments should take the duty of creating enabling atmosphere that optimize equitable access to well-being and health for all their populations (Edmond, 2019). Promotions should also draw on several disciplines, including social, economic, and other behavioural sciences so that they can generate an understanding of the social, environmental, individual, and structural actions and determinants necessary both to promote and maintain well-being and health in populations (Nowak et al., 2015).
• Second proposal is behavioural change. People are used to communal living styles. However, to curb the spread of the flu, people must change shift away from this and embrace the present new normal practices, like frequently washing hands, maintaining social distancing, wearing of PPEs, avoiding crowded places, and minimizing body contact at all costs (Dorratoltaj et al., 2017).
• Last is social marketing. Social marketing employs commercial marketing approaches to sway people’s behaviours to benefit the well-being and health of communities, societies, and individuals (Ryu et al., 2020). Nonetheless, instead of convincing people to employ commercially-branded services or products, social marketing should encourage communities and people to value as well as adopt positive health ideas, actions, and/or products (Edmond, 2019). Social media should be used to make flu vaccine be viewed differently, especially from the viewpoint of the needs and wants of vaccination recipients. Social media can also be employed to motivate programs to perceive target populations as heterogeneous groups of people, who need to be understood and attracted to the usage of the desired services first before best responses to their needs and values are made (Dorratoltaj et al., 2017). 
• Resources Needed
• Various resources are need for the actualization of this program. These include the human resource who will help in getting care stakeholders and community vaccinated, finances to acquire material equipment for the vaccination and to pay the individuals who will role play, transportation facilities, promotional flyers/posters, and acquisition of venues for the vaccination activity.
• Anticipated Measurable Outcomes
• The measurable outcomes of the proposed EBP implementation include working in sterilized places/areas, adherence to national protocols on minimizing the spread of flu and influenza, inter-professional collaboration, as well as adherence to other standardized strategies that are established in clinical environments. Application of these approaches would allow health care experts to promote enhanced adherence to protocols and standard principles of reducing the spread of the flu. The methods would also enhance the relationship between health care providers, community, and stakeholders in general.
• Evaluation of the Intervention
• The results of the interventions would be evaluated by comparing the number of infection cases in healthcare settings after measures and guidelines are followed with the number of infection cases that were noted before the implementation of the interventions.