Is Your Hospital Punishing or Encouraging People’s Necessary Creativity… Mark Graban Mar 23, 2020 7 Blog This blog post is a collaboration with a Lean healthcare consulting friend of mine, who heard another unfortunate!-->…
What Didn’t Happen After This Preventable (and Potentially-Fatal) Medication… Mark Graban Feb 20, 2020 4 Blog Here is a story that was sent to me by a blog reader, who needs to remain anonymous. I know the blog reader fairly!-->…
Podcast #343 – Amanda Mewborn, Combining Engineering and Nursing Mark Graban Jun 5, 2019 0 Interviews My guest for Episode #343 of the podcast is Amanda Mewborn, an executive director of project management for!-->!-->!-->…
When Having a Process Improvement Idea Means You’re Weak? Mark Graban May 31, 2019 7 Audio I guess I'm wired for improvement. Or, it's just become a habit. Or, it's both. I celebrate moments when I can!-->!-->!-->…
A Lean Guy Reads “Health Leaders” on Nursing Retention and Leadership Mark Graban Apr 15, 2019 2 Blog Here's the latest in an occasional ongoing series I call "A Lean Guy Reads ________". Today, I'm reading!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
#Lean Shouldn’t be a Reason for Nurses to Strike Mark Graban Aug 13, 2018 15 Blog A retired labor leader from the automotive industry (who reads this blog) sent me a link to this article:…
#TBT: Happy National Nurses Week – Posts on #Lean and Nursing Mark Graban May 10, 2018 0 Blog This week is National Nurses Week. Nurses are highly skilled and, too often, are underappreciated. Lean should…
The One Where @TheNerdyNurse Talks About the Power of #Lean in Healthcare Mark Graban Aug 15, 2016 0 Blog It's one thing to hear Lean professionals or specialists talking about the power of this methodology to improve…
#Lean Would Be a Solution for What These Nurses Complain About Mark Graban Feb 22, 2016 7 Blog In my time working with hospitals, I've always been very sympathetic to front-line nurses (and other staff). They…
Stuff I’m Reading March 2015: Womack, Sweatshops, Hospitals, and Surveys Mark Graban Mar 9, 2015 0 Blog As often happens, I have too many open browser tabs full of articles that I was going to potentially blog about.…
Talking About Breaches of Ebola Protocol is NOT “Blaming Nurses” Mark Graban Oct 14, 2014 21 Blog Note: Scroll down to see comments for additional links, articles, videos and discussion. As I've written about…
Why “More Nurses” Isn’t the Best Way to Solve What Ails… Mark Graban Aug 21, 2014 21 Best There are certainly many serious problems in healthcare. Let's look at nursing, in particular. It's a rewarding…
Higher Workloads and Fewer Nurses? Not a Recipe for Patient Protection and… Mark Graban May 7, 2014 5 Blog In further celebration of Nurses Week, it's worth discussing this TIME article about the "Killer Burden on…
Happy Nurses Week – Lean Can Help Mark Graban May 6, 2014 1 Blog This week starts the celebration of International Nurses Week, which leads up to Nurses Day on May 12, which is the…
Good Questions, But With Some Misunderstandings about Lean Healthcare Mark Graban Mar 28, 2014 1 Blog In 2009, I wrote about a nurses' union in New Brunswick that supported Lean because they realized this methodology…
Lean Thinking: We Don’t Blame Individuals for Systemic Errors Mark Graban Mar 24, 2014 8 Blog I saw this video last night on Paul Levy's blog and it's important enough that I want to share it here with a few…
Remembering the “Second Victims” of Medical Errors, Including Nurses Mark Graban May 7, 2013 9 Blog This week, May 6-13, is National Nurses Week. It's always important, but it's especially good to thank and…
A Lean Guy Listens to NPR – Waste & Problems in Healthcare Mark Graban Jun 4, 2012 4 Blog Coming this week -- blog posts and tweets (follow me or hashtag #HCsummit12) from the 2012 Lean Healthcare…