Download or read book Toolbook for Health Care Redesign written by Ruth I. Hansten and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1997 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nursing

Download or read book Healthcare Redesign Tools Tecn written by Jean Ann Larson and published by Productivity Press. This book was released on 1997-09-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When beginning work on a reengineering project at William Beaumont Hospital, Jean Ann Larson noticed an abundance of materials that talked about what reengineering was and what it could do, but a distinct lack of information on the practical tools to make it happen. After experimenting with a variety of techniques, she developed and implemented an eight-step facilitation methodology and set of corresponding tools. For those in healthcare who are working on a redesign or reengineering project, this book covers all the key aspects - from team formation, to measurement, to process analysis - and walks you through the hands-on, day-to-day implementation.

Download or read book Clinical Delegation Skills A Handbook for Professional Practice written by Ruth Hansten and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Fourth Edition has been completely revised and updated and reflects all new delegation laws and policies, current evidence-based research that supports the efficacy of team work and delegation in clinical settings, unit-based care delivery modalities, step by step methods to stay safe while using assistive personnel, new information on Magnet Status for hospitals, and an entirely new resource section."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Clinical Delegation Skills written by Ruth I. Hansten and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinical Delegation Skills, A Handbook for Professional Practice, Third Edition will help readers better understand delegation skills and apply them effectively in their own clinical setting. Practical, easy to read, and full of checkpoints and exercises, this renownedtext will teach you about the world of professional health care roles and accountability, as well as how to communicate effectively, provide feedback, handle conflict, and address your own leadership strengths and weaknesses.

Download or read book Essentials for the Improvement of Healthcare Using Lean Six Sigma written by D.H. Stamatis and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essentials for the Improvement of Healthcare Using Lean & Six Sigma is all about real and immediate quality improvement. Written by D.H. Stamatis, a renowned expert in organizational development and quality, the book addresses concerns that can be ameliorated with minimal government intervention. Detailing immediate paths for improvement fundamental to primary care, hospitals, and managed care, the book: Introduces much-needed mechanics of change, including transitioning from hierarchical groups to interactive inclusionary teams Focuses on customer satisfaction as a key indicator of quality Explains how Lean and Six Sigma tools can be readily applied to healthcare Spotlights primary care, including how to define and redesign its process and develop better metrics Presents IT applications that will improve billing, documentation, and patient care Examines Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria as it applies to healthcare Illustrates quality improvements and best practices through real world case studies Includes a companion CD with Six Sigma forms and formulas, Lean improvement tools, and other quality tools and worksheets Whether you think advances in technology and medicine, coupled with freedom of choice, makes the U.S. healthcare system the best in the world, or whether you believe growing costs, regulatory morass, and a tort-obsessed culture drop it to the bottom; it is evident that the processes currently employed and the subsequent defensive medicine philosophy that has resulted will not be able to meet the future demands of our aging society. Through Six Sigma and Lean, this text moves the focus from reactive controls to the proactive efficiency required to implement real and sustainable quality improvements that will allow us to forge a system that is all about wellness.

Download or read book 25 Keys to Redesign U S Healthcare written by Dave Racer and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Home Care Nursing Delegation Skills written by Ruth I. Hansten and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1999 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential reference for nursing students in developing and implementing the competencies necessary in caring for critically ill patients! Synergy for Clinical Excellence: The AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care enhances the understanding of The Synergy Model in practice. Based on a decade of work by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, the text encompasses the history and development of the nurse and patient characteristic inherent in The Synergy Model, and then thoroughly addresses each characteristic individually and applies the model in practice. Includes sample test questions relevant to the model that will assist nursing students in preparing for certification through AACN, and provide further examples of the integration of the Synergy Model in practice.

Download or read book Process Redesign for Health Care Using Lean Thinking written by David I. Ben-Tovim and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Process Redesign for Health Care Using Lean Thinking is a response to a simple, but hard to answer, question and is the result of the experiences of a working doctor who was also the chief safety and quality officer of an Australian teaching hospital. At this hospital, he observed that the Emergency Department was staff by talented, well-trained, and respected doctors and nurses. The facilities were modern, and the work load unexceptional, but the department was close to melt down. Bad things were happening to patients, everyone was blaming each other, lots of things had been tried but nothing was getting better and no one could explain why. The problem was not a lack of technical knowledge or expertise, the problem was that no one stood back and said, "what’s the best way to move 200 or 300 patients a day through the complicated and varying, sequence of steps needed to sort out the many different problems that bring patients to our department?" These challenges are faced by hospitals and health services all over the world. There are difficulties with patient flow, congestion, queues, inefficient utilization of resources, problems engaging clinical staff in improvement programs, adverse incidents, and budget constraints. Lean thinking and value stream analysis gives hospitals and health services struggling with these issues the insights they need to help themselves. This book provides a method that systematically turns those insights into working programs of service and system redesign. The book is divided into two sections. The first section gives the background to the approach, and systematically works through the Process Redesign methodology, step-by-step. The second section is a series of case studies that show the methodology in action, what worked and what didn’t work. The goal of any process redesign is simple: the right care, for the right person, at the right time, in the right place, and right the first time. This book helps the people who work in hospitals and health services realize these goals by working together.

Download or read book Transforming Health Care Management written by Ivan Barrick and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using straightforward, accessible language, this groundbreaking resource is a comprehensive primer on the most progressive tools and techniques currently used for assessing healthcare systems and healthcare process effectiveness. Typically these tools are embedded in programs such as Total Quality Management, continuous process improvement, process reengineering, protocol redesign, or most recently, Six Sigma and organizational transformation. Transforming Health Care Management presents an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach while focusing on fundamental concepts. It will thoroughly prepare the reader to design, implement, manage, operate, monitor or improve technology, processes, and programs and is an ideal text for those studying healthcare information technology, operations research, systems analysis, process improvement, or informatics. Features: Chapters cover highly technical subjects using clear and accessible language. Vignettes from the author’s years of professional experience illustrate particularly complex concepts. Focuses on key concepts and applications rather than theory and jargon. Accompanied by a complete package of instructor resources (downloadable Instructor’s Manual, TestBank, PowerPoint slides) to facilitate teaching and learning.

Download or read book Work Role Redesign written by Ruth Bredlie Hanson, MS, RN and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1995-05-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A how-to approach to planning, implementing, and evaluating redesign efforts . . . this book has much to offer. It is a clear discussion of this commonly used but relatively new strategy. The tools, models, and examples provide much help and insight. It is the kind of book that pays for itself with its practical impact."--Journal of Nursing Care Quality Packed with helpful advice from providers who have undergone successful work and role redesign efforts, including methods for preparing for change, managing the change process, and overcoming barriers.

Download or read book A Toolkit for Redesign in Health Care written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2003, Denver Health began a major effort to redesign/transform the process of care in the hospital in a comprehensive manner. The information detailed in this report provides an approach to redesign utilized by Denver Health. It is presented here with the intent to help others who wish to undertake the process of redesign or system transformation. The implementation phase has just begun, so this document does not provide information on the actual implementation of the redesign process or data on outcomes of redesign.

Download or read book Home Health Redesign written by Barbara Stover Gingerich and published by Aspen. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home Health Redesign introduces home health providers to integrated care delivery systems and shows how to capture and control costs and outcomes, how to deal with staffing issues, and how to gain accreditation from all relevant organizations, including the National Council for Quality Assurance. Changes in documentation, information management, and marketing and billing are addressed. Implementation issues, maintaining the restructured organization, and quality assessment and improvement strategies such as benchmarking are covered. An abundance of practical tools, such as tracking tools, orientation outlines, job descriptions, and examples of documentation and competency assessment and performance tools support the text.

Download or read book Health System Redesign written by Joachim P. Sturmberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This forward-looking volume challenges professionals and interested lay readers to reconsider our ways of looking at health and wellness, illness and disease, and the goals of health/healthcare systems. Reframing health systems as complex adaptive systems, the book identifies health care as a central aspect of social care and security for all people, particularly the most vulnerable. From there, the author outlines necessary organizational, design, medical, and community steps toward building health systems that view and practice health care as a human right and can produce optimum care in the long term. And extensive illustrations display effective collaborative problem solving within these systems, in both intriguing theoretical models and the real world. Highlights of the coverage: · Systems and complexity thinking in health and health care · Redesign based on “first principles” · Redesign from an organizational perspective · Working together effectively and efficiently to achieve a common purpose · Analyzing “the workings” of health systems as complex adaptive systems · Person-centered, equitable, and sustainable health systems: achieving the goal Health System Redesign brings a voice and a vision to the most pressing problems in healthcare service delivery, and offers new goals and purpose to health policymakers, health financiers, organizational leaders, clinicians, and concerned members of the local community

Download or read book Reengineering Health Care written by James Champy and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: """Reengineering Health Care" gets to the core of transforming our current system by advocating the widespread use of IT, eliminating inefficient practices, and keeping the system focused on a healthy individual and not on a broken process.""--Newt Gingrich, Founder of the Center for Health Transformation, and former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives ""This book is a prescription for streamlining health care. Using the techniques that have successfully transformed business into customer-focused and efficient organizations, the authors provide a step-by-step approach to improving health care processes, guiding health care into the next generation of Lean delivery systems.""--Dr. John Halamka, Chief Information Officer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ""In health care, we tend to inundate our people with information, rather than enabling them to have insights. This concise guide will resonate with both senior and front-line managers who know they're engaged in unproductive work. They will see that reengineering is not overly difficult and can enable them to improve patient care and efficiency.""--Trevor Fetter, President and CEO, Tenet Health Corporation, and Trustee, Federation of American Hospitals ""It isn't reform that will fix our ailing health care system, its reengineering. Champy and Greenspun highlight organizations that have transformed, and reinvented, themselves by reengineering care delivery-they've lowered costs, improved care quality and patient safety, and increased the satisfaction of those giving and receiving care. Every clinician, hospital executive, and politician should read this book.""--Bill Crounse, M.D., Senior Director, Worldwide Health, Microsoft Corporation ""Implement health care technology, and you have better health care tools; reengineer with a focus on technology, process, and people, and you have a better health care system. This straightforward guide shows how to transform health care to maximize quality, safety, convenience, and impact the cost of delivery. No one can read this book and not feel a profound call to action.""--H. Stephen Lieber, CAE, President & CEO, HIMSS In their legendary book, "Reengineering the Corporation", Jim Champy and Michael Hammer introduced businesspeople to the enormous power of a revolutionary methodology called "reengineering". Using reengineering, businesses around the world have systematically retooled their processes--achieving dramatic cost savings, greater customer satisfaction, and more value. Now, Jim Champy and Dr. Harry Greenspun show how to apply the proven reengineering methodology in health care: throughout physician practices, hospitals, and even entire health systems. You'll meet innovative and visionary leaders who've been successfully reengineering organizations across the entire delivery spectrum and learn powerful lessons for improving quality, reducing costs, and expanding access. This book doesn't just demonstrate the immense potential of health care reengineering to revolutionize health care delivery: "it offers a clear roadmap for realizing that potential in your own organization""." Deliver Better Care to More People, at Lower Cost How reengineering can lead to more efficient, safer delivery--and sharply reduced costs How to focus on prevention and wellness, as well as chronic disease and hospital care How to earn the trust, contributions, and passion of skeptical physicians and health care professionals How to harness technology to create more seamless, accessible, valued, and sustainable health care systems--and avoid technology's pitfalls How Zeev Neuwirth transformed the Lenox Hill Hospital ER and the 700-doctor Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates practice How Tom Knight is revolutionizing patient safety at Methodist Hospital System, one of America's largest private, nonprofit medical complexes How to start today in your own organization!

Download or read book Patient Care Redesign written by American Organization of Nurse Executives and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1999-03-29 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redesign and restructuring efforts have become commonplace in hospitals and health care systems throughout the country. Often, nursing and patient care staff are the primary focus for such programs. Although the field is replete with new and exciting models, few case studies have been available, until now, to illustrate the experiences, successes and failures of patient care redesign initiatives. Although some early redesign efforts were touted as one-size-fits-all, Patient Care Redesign offers a diverse collection of case studies from across the country, each emphasizing unique goals for the redesign effort, given the institution's mission, culture, and marketplace. Additional chapters draw insightful and relevant conclusions, and make recommendations regarding redesign approaches. Each case study in Patient Care Redesign covers: Organizational culture prior to the redesign Impetus for the redesign initiative Objectives for the redesign effort Analysis of the planning, implementation, and evaluation phases Key lessons learned Patient Care Redesign offers nurses, patient care executives, and other health care stakeholders the knowledge, information, and tools to understand the concepts and trends that are fundamental to this process of the current health care environment.

Download or read book Interdisciplinary Case Studies in Health Care Redesign written by Mickey L. Parsons and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1997 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes approaches to operational redesign and clinical process redesign and provides examples and case studies from the field, designed to assist health care professional in redesign. Part I examines operational redesign, with discussion of the case for change, and structure and team processes fo

Download or read book System Design and Redesign of American Healthcare written by Tim McDonald (MPP) and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: