Tag: Nursing

This week is National Nurses Week. Nurses are highly skilled and, too often, are underappreciated. Lean should be one of the best things that ever happened to nurses. In a truly Lean environment, we wouldn't be understaffed. Nurses wouldn't get blamed and punished for systemic problems. Hospitals and the broader healthcare system would break down silos and barriers to care. And, nurses would be treated respectfully by everybody in the system at all times. Instead of being a hospital to celebrate and thank nurses, I'm on some vacation time through next Tuesday. So, I'll leave some of my favorite blog posts and podcasts about nursing and Lean here in this post.

Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Subscribe to get...

Nursing turnover is very likely costing your organization millions of dollars. But you don't have to just accept that... you can fix it. I'm happy...

I was prompted today to think about an excerpt from my book Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement: "In many hospital settings,...

Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! News, blogs, articles, resources,...

Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! News, blogs, articles, resources,...

This blog post is a collaboration with a Lean healthcare consulting friend of mine, who heard another unfortunate story from his sister, an emergency...

Here is a story that was sent to me by a blog reader, who needs to remain anonymous. I know the blog reader fairly...

My guest for Episode #343 of the podcast is Amanda Mewborn, an executive director of project management for Piedmont Health. I've known Amanda through the...

Here's the latest in an occasional ongoing series I call "A Lean Guy Reads ________". Today, I'm reading the latest issue of Health Leaders...

Mark's Note: Today's post is written by Ken Segel, the managing director of Value Capture, LLC. This is the first of what I hope...

A retired labor leader from the automotive industry (who reads this blog) sent me a link to this article: #RedforMed: 1,800 Vermont Nurses Are On Strike Demanding Their Hospital Put Patients Over Profits The article isn't from a newspaper; it's from a site that provides "independent and incisive coverage of the labor movement and the struggles of workers to obtain safe, healthy and just workplaces." Again, for the record, I'm all in favor of "safety, healthy, and just workplaces." That's what Lean management aims to deliver.