It is important for healthcare organizations to understand what it takes to accomplish the tasks involved in everyday workflow—the process and steps it takes to complete a task. With new technology and advances in healthcare delivery and processes, healthcare managers are required to manage change. Knowledge of the workflow makes changes easier to identify.

· Explain how knowledge of the work flow within the department can help when changes need to be made with new processes

· Expand on how the work flow within the facility may be altered due to a new process

· Discuss some of the positive and negative impacts that a new process could have on a facility if a workflow analysis is not completed

1 page, approx 200 words