Another great post from IOatWORK.
This one reviews an article about minority opinion expression in teams.
One dynamic of high performing teams is that everyone’s opinion is heard. This is an important concept for any organization developing teams to work on safety initiatives.
http://www.ioatwork.com/ioatwork/2010/10/minority-opinions-a-vital-role-in-team-success.html
Excerpt from Harvard Business School working Knowledge:
“A Harvard research team recently set out to better understand what managers can do to encourage employees to speak up about problems, and to investigate how managers can encourage employees to offer solutions.
The team’s working paper, “Speaking Up Constructively: Managerial Practices that Elicit Solutions from Front-Line Employees” considers data on nearly 7,500 incidents from a single hospital to determine whether two types of managerial actions increase the frequency with which frontline workers speak up by reporting incidents and do so constructively by including solutions in their incident reports”
Please read their article: View full post
Read Speaking up constructively linked from that post
It is 88 degrees in Tampa as day one kicks off for the SIOP LEC on Developing and Enhancing High Performance Teams.
The amazing speakers: I will list their names and content and the thoughts they have provoked in me from a safety dog perspective.
Gary Latham the co-chair of the LEC gave an inspiring introduction about the purpose of these LECs as not only to hear great speakers but also to compare notes as practitioners. more: Read the rest of this entry »
I won’t have much to say this week as I am just starting back to class. This semester I am taking Psychology of Organizational Ergonomics in the Workplace.
Next week however, I will be live-blogging from sunny Florida at the LEC (Leading Edge Consortium). This year’s topics center around developing and enhancing high performance teams.
I am particularly excited to hear presentations particular to healthcare from:
•Heidi King, Dept of Defense Patient Safety Program: Using Teamwork to Build a Culture of Safety in Healthcare: The DoD Journey
•Michael West, Aston University, UK: I-O Psychology in Health Care Services – the UK National Health Service.
•Eduardo Salas, University of Central Florida: Evidence-Based Solutions for Team Development: Competencies and Learning Strategies
Stay tuned!
Are there products in the hospital setting that we could combine into all-in-one devices to make things safer and more available for either the patient or the staff?
One of the difficulties in infusing safety into the healthcare environment is getting safety behaviors habitually into bedside practice. The previously referenced degradation of the anesthesia safety policy published in Quality and Safety in Health Care is a perfect illustration of this dilemma. View the full text of this article The natural lifespan of a safety policy: violations and system migration in anaesthesia.
A recent experiment published in the European Journal of Social Psychology contained the results of a study focused on the length of time it took to insinuate a behavior into habit…. Read the rest of this entry »
Pediatric patients are at risk for medication errors during inpatient hospital stays but also in their own homes.
From the CDC:
Findings from national data suggest 4 things busy clinicians can tell parents and older children about using medicines safely.
1.Among children, unintended medication overdoses (rather than allergic reactions or side effects) are the most common cause of serious harm and lead to more than 70,000 emergency department visits every year.
2.It is not errors by clinicians that cause most of these overdoses — Read the rest of this entry »
Obviously gaps in patient safety behaviors would lead to greater expenditures in a healthcare system but can highlighting safety concerns actually save money?
A blog post by David Williams uses a new radiation law in California as an example. The law requires healthcare providers to disclose excess radiation exposure from CT (computerized tomography) scans. This includes a patient needing a rescan because a machine malfunctioned, a wrong body part was scanned or when the dose exceeds the normal protocol by 50% (Bisnar, 2010). Mr. Williams surmises that patients will … Read the rest of this entry »
When a safety issue arises hospitals often convene a team to come with ideas for a safer process. Three types of teams include project teams, virtual teams, and quality circles. A project team is time limited and focused on a one-time output (Borkowski, 2011). They are usually formed to solve a particular problem and exist only until that problem is resolved (Landy & Conte, 2010). A virtual team needs technology to exist. These teams can be permanent or task focused and are defined by their ability to work across time, space and physical distance (Borkowski, 2011). Quality circles are like mini think tanks where a group of employees convenes to identify problems and generate ideas (Landy & Conte, 2010). This group submits these suggestions to management who then decide whether to act on these proposals (Landy & Conte, 2010)…more… Read the rest of this entry »
I played tennis this morning with a friend. On the way home I thought I would stop at the supermarket to pick up some snacks for the Patriots game today. I realized I forgot my debit card (ah, the limitations of the human memory). Looking for alternate forms of payment, I found winning lottery scratch tickets in my glove compartment.
I quickly added them up (3 of them) and confirmed that … Read the rest of this entry »
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