Tag: Nursing

I'm about conferenced out! First was the excellent SHS/ASQ conference on healthcare operations improvement (read my posts), then the HIMSS conference focused on heathcare...

Mark's note: This is a guest post made available for me to post by Barnes-Jewish Hospital. by Laurie Wolf and Nancy Sigillito The full article is...

Saturday's Wall Street Journal had an article ("11 Minutes of Action") with analysis that said something my wife noticed a long time ago -...

It's been a while since I've done a "What You're Searching For" Post, where I pull out items from my blog's stats, the keyword...

This article from Detroit's Crain's Business Journal ("Lean machine: Health care follows auto's lead, gears up for efficiency") highlights a growing lean healthcare movement...

TL;DR: Sending nurses and other hospital staff home early when census dips may reduce short-term labor costs, but it undermines continuous improvement, morale, and...

Today was an exciting day at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 21st annual National Forum on Healthcare Quality Improvement. It's my first time here,...

TL;DR: Disruptive and disrespectful behavior in hospitals creates fear that undermines patient safety, quality, and continuous improvement. Lean healthcare depends on psychological safety and...

telegraphjournal.com - Lean process, big results I'll write more on this topic of unions and Lean tomorrow, but I wanted to share this story from...

by Dan Markovitz Long-time readers of this blog (and my own) know that I focus on bringing lean techniques to individual work habits. One topic...

Six Best Practice Elements of ThedaCare's Collaborative Care ModelHere's an article from Becker's Hospital Review about the six best practices of Lean-based Collaborative Care...

Solving Health Care Problems By Design : NPRThanks to Andrew B. for passing this along - audio and web text from NPR with some...