Is Your Hospital Punishing or Encouraging People’s Necessary Creativity…
This blog post is a collaboration with a Lean healthcare consulting friend of mine, who heard another unfortunate…
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What Didn’t Happen After This Preventable (and Potentially-Fatal) Medication…
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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”
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…
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…
In further celebration of Nurses Week, it's worth discussing this TIME article about the "Killer Burden on…
Happy Nurses Week – Lean Can Help
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
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
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
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
Coming this week -- blog posts and tweets (follow me or hashtag #HCsummit12) from the 2012 Lean Healthcare…