IDENTIFY ADMINISTRATIVE AND CLINICAL LEADERS
Effective implementation of a new clinical intervention starts with identifying your champions and forming a clinical Implementation Team. It’s important that your Implementation Team is available for weekly meetings with the Lead Node team and can assist with pre-launch planning activities, coordinate trainings, and facilitate and monitor the implementation of the Rapid Procedure. We recommend that you first identify a team leader such as your Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Chief Operating Officer (COO), medical director, other clinical director, or another staff member in a leadership position that has a strong influence within your organization and can directly facilitate the changes needed for the rapid intervention.
In addition to this champion, we recommend a clinical champion that can be on site and available for supervising clinical staff during the initial implementation of the Rapid Procedure. For instance, other sites that have been successful in implementation had a CMO or CCO as the team leader and a clinical champion to provide direct supervision and support to the clinical teams on site.
These champions are critical to the success of the Rapid Procedure, so spend time deciding who may best fit these roles. When thinking about who best suits these roles, leadership must also consider these staff members’ current work responsibilities, general availability, and if there is flexibility in their current schedule to take on additional responsibilities for the Rapid Procedure implementation.
BUILD YOUR IMPLEMENTATION TEAM
Now that you have identified your champions, it’s time to build your Implementation Team! Leadership must consider other key members for the Implementation Team. The team should consist of individuals that are available to adapt internal processes and clinical workflow on the detoxification unit for the Rapid Procedure. Examples of other team members include physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, or inpatient counselors.
