AOPO DFSC Webinar PDSA Engage and Change AJ Johnson UPDATED
1. The PDSA Engage and Change:
A Multi-Disciplinary Process
Model to Serve African
American Families
AOPO DFSC Webinar – Focus on Authorization
AJ Johnson, CPTC Senior Organ Recovery Coordinator
Sierra Donor Services
3. The Why?
2013 Deceased Donor Rates By Race in
California
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, HRSA, Organ Procurement
and Transplantation Network
46.1
8.7
37.1
6.8
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
Caucasian African
American
Hispanic Asian
4. The Why?
Sierra Donor Services (SDS) DSA Population by Race
White
34%
Hispanic
28%
Asian
18%
African-
American
14%
Pacific Islander
1%
Races in SDS DSA 2012
White Hispanic Asian African-American
Pacific Islander American Indian Other Race Multiple Race
5. The Why?
African American Consent Rates in Sierra Donor
Services (SDS) DSA
In 2010, Sierra Donor
Services (SDS) African-
American consent rates
were 23%.
In 2011 the following
year showed increased
gains, but still were only
40%.
6. The Beginning
Call to Action
The Case That Started It
ALL
On June, 2nd 2013, a
prominent African-
American Minister in our
DSA chided us… “Ideally,
a person should not hear
about nor discuss
donation for the first
time at the deathbed of
their loved one. This
discussion should take
place NOT where a
person DIES, but where
they LIVE…!”
7. The Beginning
Call to Action
“…people LIVE in
communities…”
“…that is where your message
should be heard first!”
8. The Beginning
Listen to the Needs of the Community
It was clear, we needed a revised plan…but what
exactly?!
Before we took action to respond to the assumed needs,
we first went to the community and listened!
We heard what the needs were and HOW the community
wanted these needs addressed.
And then…WE took ACTION!
9. PDSA Framework and Team
A team of ONE Clinician and ONE Community Outreach
Coordinator was created.
The PDSA officially began on October 19, 2013 with the
COMMUNITY OUTREACH PHASE.
The CLINICAL RESPONSE/MNGMT. PHASE began
December 17, 2013 and came to a close on August 26,
2014.
The PDSA Team met with the SDS Executive Director and
Senior Leadership once a week to give a progress
report.
10. PDSA Fearless Messaging
Engagement of individuals with transparency, an
informative open dialogue validating their experiences,
while addressing each misperception head on.
The goal is not to allow anyone to leave a conversation,
or engagement with negative rhetoric endorsed by the
silence of the OPO, or it’s perceived representative.
Fearless messaging was proven to be effective in
community, hospital and family engagement
opportunities.
12. LIKE REQUESTOR
RIGHT REQUESTOR
LIKE Requestor is incomplete.
RIGHT Requestor is a Public Education, Hospital
Services, Clinical Services, and Family Care subject
matter expert on donation.
RIGHT Requestor is a professional ADVOCATE for
donation and transplantation throughout the entire
process.
RIGHT Requestor cultivates a DONATION subculture
within the many layers of the hospital.
RIGHT Requestor recognizes this work in its nature is
about Collaboration, Respect and Trust.
13. LIKE REQUESTOR
RIGHT REQUESTOR
Donation is a focused, but fluid linear process from A to
Z.
The PDSA allowed for consistent, focused execution of
action steps throughout the referral process, Donor
Family engagement, organ donation process, and
follow-up.
Created collaborative hospital relationships.
Donor Family advocacy created Donate Life
Ambassadors/Advocates.
16. ARRIVE THE FOUR D’S OF EFFECTIVE
REQUESTINGBE
• Present/behave in a
professional manner
in all that you do and
to all you engage.
• Aware of your
surroundings.
KNOW
• The Culture of
hospital/Intensive
Care Unit which is
unique unto itself.
• The Gatekeepers
DO
• Observe the Four D’s
of the PATIENT,
FAMILY, HOSPITAL
TEAMS.
• Listen, observe, and
be silent.
ARRIVE
DIALOGUE
DEMEANOR
DATA
DRESS
17. ASSESS
THE FOUR D’S OF EFFECTIVE
REQUESTING
BE
• Diligent and Discerning
in your FACT gathering.
KNOW
• The patient and their
hospital course,
medical/social history
if available.
DO
• Collect ALL pertinent
data regarding patient.
• Testimonials from MD,
RN, RT, etc. can provide
valuable information
about the family’s
experience with the
hospital during the
patient’s course.
ASSESS
DIALOGUE
DEMEANOR
DATA
DRESS
18. ADDRESS
THE FOUR D’S OF EFFECTIVE
REQUESTING
BE
• Aware of specific needs,
beliefs, and practices of
the patient and the
culture he/she is from.
KNOW
• Your EVOLVING audience!
DO
• Provide Family Centered
direction and motivation
when needed, setting
expectations moving
forward through the
evolving process.
• Guide Staff to a place
where they are
comfortable with our
presence and the
situation while
maintaining an effective
collaborative
environment.
ADDRESS
DIALOGUE
DEMEANOR
DATA
DRESS
19. APPROACH
ADVOCACY
THE FOUR D’S OF EFFECTIVE
REQUESTING
BE
• Culturally Humble
KNOW
• The wealth and depths
of your own personal
biases.
• Differences may exist
between your values
and beliefs and respect
those differences.
DO
• Constantly “scan your
sector” for changing
attitudes, verbal and
non verbal
communication of the
approached family.
APPROACH
DIALOGUE
DEMEANOR
DATA
DRESS
20. APPROACH
ADVOCACY
THE FOUR D’S OF EFFECTIVE
REQUESTING
BE
• Supportive and have an
genuine expressive and
expansive philosophy of
Dual Advocacy.
KNOW
• Where it may be
unrealistic to know ALL the
common beliefs of the
communities we serve, it is
reasonable to be informed
about the practices and
needs of the communities
we see with regularity.
DO
• Ask open ended questions,
make empathic comments,
and probe to elicit families
own perspectives.
APPROACH
DIALOGUE
DEMEANOR
DATA
DRESS
22. Cultural Competency
vs. Cultural Humility
Cultural Competency
•Organizational systems
•Cultural resources to facilitate care
•Understanding local demographics
Cultural Humility
•Awareness of personal biases
•Listen rather than assume
•Identify what is “beneath the
iceberg”
Cultural Dignity
•The goal of culturally appropriate,
competent, sensitive care
•What the patient/family/
community bring to the encounter
•What the
patient/family/community take
away from interactions
23. Cultural Competency
vs. Cultural Humility
Cultural
Competency
Systems
Level
Cultural
Humility
Provider’s
Stance
Cultural
Dignity
Patient and
Family
Experience
25. Measurement of Results
Clinical Response/ Approach and Authorization
PDSA ONLINE INTAKE FORM
Referral data collected and
maintained by one clinician for
consistency.
In addition to data the intake
form collected testimonials in
real time from potential donor
families and hospital teams.
Demographic data, not typically
collected, assisted in gleaning
information for future
engagements.
27. Measurement of Results
Clinical Response/ Approach and Authorization
The PDSA outcomes have demonstrated that
customization of the message for the targeted
community in concert with the appropriate messengers
will increase dissemination of accurate information and
most importantly get the “yes” from the donor family.
This Approach/Authorization Protocol demonstrated the
“Like Requestor, Right Requestor” aligned with fearless
messaging techniques is effective.
These methods could be considered for those DSA’s with
low consent rates in communities of color.
28. A Few Things to Consider
Developed clear and concise goals and constantly
evaluate their efficacy.
Use the PDSA model for improvement as a framework
for developing, testing, learning and refining processes
as it relates to present and future engagement of
communities of color.
Replication is possible through Effort, Energy, and
Excitement!
Focus on the entirety of the Linear Process of Donation,
from A to Z. The greatest yield will not be met by
focusing on one area of it.
29. LASTLY: A Renewed
Challenge
Let’s Talk About It!
"Change will not come if we wait for
some other person or some other
time. We are the ones we've been
waiting for. We are the change that
we seek."
- President Barrack Obama
30. Contact Information
AJ Johnson, Senior Organ Recovery Coordinator
Phone: 206-419-0151
Email: ajohnson@dcids.org
Nicki Carrillo, Senior Public Education Coordinator
Phone: 206-931-7925
Email: ncarrillo@dcids.org
31. References
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Latino Patients ANNALS OF FAMILY MEDICINE. WWW.ANNFAMMED.ORG VOL. 11,
NO. 1 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2013
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Coalition of Compassionate Care of California-Building Bridges Cultural
Diversity and End of Life Care Seminar, End of Life Care Through a Cultural
Lens
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Editor's Notes
My name is AJ Johnson, Senior Organ Recovery Coordinator from Sierra Donor Services located in Sacramento California. I am both honored and humbled to address you all today. This presentation is MY first person account from personal and professional experiences, and education within the realms of Organ Donation/Transplantation. With more than a decade of experience and service in this field, this presentation is a culmination of those experiences coalesced with evidence/outcomes from this PDSA change model.
I spent 13 years in the United States Army, and I’d like to share with you all something that was taught to me while I was there.
The B.L.U.F.F.!!!! (BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT FIRST!)
This is a way of speaking that we use in the Army! It’s a type of speak, that gets to the ROOT of the matter quickly without any added fillers or fluff.
It’s efficient. It’s HONEST. And most of all, it’s effective.
The BLUFF here AS it pertains to this PRESENTATION and more importantly the NEED, is simple!
YES! As you all can see on the screen, “The need of ALL has been ACKNOWLEDGE!” But this STATEMENT is incomplete!
YES! THERE IS A PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE ALL ACKNOWLEDGED! THIS is EVIDENT by your attendance on today’s call.
The BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT FIRST as it pertains to what faces us, is a SIMPLE SOLUTION that has been made far too COMPLEX! By institutional and organization apathy, and unwillingness to fully engage this problem head on, we ALL are culpable.
Sure! We have studied, probed, poked, and postulated for years! But what have we DONE? Time is wasted and with this stagnancy comes with it the unnecessary loss of lives. Lives WE are committed to saving.
I know you all have seen and are quite familiar with the national numbers. Allow me to show you what we are up against in California.
In 2013 DECEASED DONOR RATES in California were slightly higher than the population of AA in the state. AA make up 6.9% of residents of California and 8.7% of deceased Donors. 2709 are awaiting transplant, of 12.2% of the California Waiting List. 2551 are waiting for kidneys.
WAIT TIMES ARE ON AVERAGE 10 YEARS!!!
California Active OPOs 4 Active TXCs22
OPO : Organ Procurement Org. TXC : Transplant Center
African Americans only account for appx 6.9% of the California Population. However, African Americans more than double that in SDS DSA and is more in line with the National Population rates.
And from the CHALLENGE grew a relationship! And an commitment to MEET people where they LIVE.
Dr. Brown would invite SDS to join his church in their first annual Community engagement event called the “Capitol City Block Party!”
It was clear we NEEDED a plan! For the “in box thinking” one size fits all approach we had was a complete and utter failure as it pertained to communities of color.
We developed an effective way of engaging
It’s my opinion that consent or authorization was not given the importance that it deserves, for without the “Yes”, there is no case. No organs recovered, no lives saved.
Without the “YES” lives are not saved. BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT FIRST! What’s the BLUFF?!
LIKE REQUESTOR, RIGHT REQUESTOR-Traditionally Like requestor was and is in present day as I understand it, is a requestor who shares the same ethnic or racial profile of the patient’s and their family.
1) Like Requestor is only a part of what is needed to truly address the totality of the ‘IN ROOM” challenges.
2)Cultural Norms Linguistics Cultural History first person accounting
4) TREAT HOSPITAL STAFF AS A PARTNER! Invest in them with each opportunity you interact with them. Hospital Staff “buy-in” is essential to its success. Creation of sub culture of DONATION identifiable by its language, its behavior, and its structure is key to creating an environment and situation that creates successful outcomes, i.e. the “YES!”
This identifiable sub culture or donation culture is triggered by the very presence of the RIGHT requestor as the DONATION need emerges from the HOSPITAL CULTURE. The RIGHT requestor facilitates a transition of these CULTURES.
How does the RIGHT requestor go about doing this, you ask? By approaching every situation as it’s own unique cosmos of moving parts and energy. Respectfully addressing the needs, concerns, and the work of our external partners in our hospitals while focusing on the needs of our potential donor family.
Further, it is important to acknowledge no matter how much we train hospital staff about our policies and structures they remain esoteric to many and misunderstood and misinterpreted by a few.
Donation is a linear process from A to Z. The PDSA has allowed us to be involved in each linear step. From education of the community to real time hospital engagement and education to the approach it self. But not ending there! The PDSA allows us to be involved from the beginning to the end. but to also creation of advocacy from donor families.
Now that we have a 30,000 foot level perspective of LIKE REQUESTOR, RIGHT REQUESTOR. Allow me to go a more ground level perspective from the day in the life of a LIKE and RIGHT REQUESTOR! Beginning with PREPARATION. In my practice I have found the little details are the ones that kill!
The A’s! are STAGES of the Process! And they are for the most part, self-explanatory. However, they ARE fluid and often are changing from moment to moment---to phone call to phone call---to each face to face engagement.
STAGE 1: ARRIVE-On site for the first time. This is at the beginning of the referral process/referral response.
STAGE 2: ASSESS
This is done in each engagement of the referral/donor process. From telephonic conversation to on site/rounding/approach. It is not a static construct, but fluid.
STAGE 3: ADDRESS
This is the time proceeding when the family may be approached for donation. It normally occurs when
STAGE 4: APPROACH/ADVOCACY-This is the “in room” approach.
The Four D’s are TOOLS used in engagements.
The D’s are a sensory exchange of all who are involved in any and every part of the stages. They include, RN’s, MD’s, HOC’s, the person in elevator who notices something different about you to the family member to whomever! YOU are not only USING these TOOLS for your own assessment of your surroundings, to a certain degree those around are using their own mnemonic to evaluate YOU!
The D’s are all about that ICEBERG analogy we’ve so often used and heard. Your physical appearance to your demeanor and tone.
DRESS and DEMEANOR: Exude Professionalism! It is a weapon!
Your appearance is the one personal characteristic that is immediately obvious and accessible to others. You can’t hide it. Your appearance makes a strong
statement about your personality, values, attitudes, interests, knowledge, abilities, roles, and goals. You can’t afford to be seen as disrespectful, antagonistic, pretentious, scatterbrained, irresponsible, ineffective, or unproductive. You can’t afford to create a negative impression or to build barriers
between you and others because of your appearance. This sets the stage for those who will interact with you and to create a positive first impression.
DIALOGUE:
Professional and concise. Be Brief, But Brilliant.
DATA:
Clinical Data collection as well as the testimonials of staff and other noted interdisciplinary evaluation.
Your D’s tell YOUR story! And other’s D’s tell theirs! So listen, and investigate.
The D’s and the A’s are fluid, so my evaluation of them is equally without form.
BE KNOW DO is another ARMY model. It is one that is used to teach Military Leadership and Troop Engagement.
STAGES OF PROCESS!
The A’s! are STAGES of the Process!
ARRIVE-On site for the first time. This is at the beginning of the referral process/referral response.
DRESS and DEMEANOR: Exude Professionalism! It is one of my best weapons
Your appearance is the one personal characteristic that is immediately obvious and accessible to others. You can’t hide it. Your appearance makes a strong
statement about your personality, values, attitudes, interests, knowledge, abilities, roles, and goals. You can’t afford to be seen as disrespectful, antagonistic, pretentious, scatterbrained, irresponsible, ineffective, or unproductive. You can’t afford to create a negative impression or to build barriers
between you and others because of your appearance. This sets the stage for those who will interact with you and to create a positive first impression.
DIALOGUE:
Hospital Concerns
STAGE 2: ASSESS
This is done in each engagement of the referral/donor process. From telephonic conversation to on site/rounding/approach. It is not a static construct, but fluid.
Ongoing evaluation of Four D’s as they EVOLVE in Patient, Family, and Hospital Staff. They can often change as the referral process evolves into an Approach/Advocacy Opportunity.
STAGE 3: ADDRESS
This is the time proceeding when the family may be approached for donation. It normally occurs when
STAGE 4: APPROACH/ADVOCACY-This is the “in room” approach.
Concepts of culture and ethnicity may be useful for making generalizations about populations; however, if used to predict individual behavior, they may be dangerous and lead to stereotyping.
I believe Donation is the BEST option for all families given the choice of donation.
The requestor can avoid stereotyping by asking EXPLICITLY whether the patient/family holds a belief that is prevalent within the culture to which they belong.
Further, draw down on the individual in the room…Make the discussion about the patient and his/her good will in life, contrasting that his/her death should be commensurate with the way they lived their life. This can be an effective tool one can place in their approach tool box!
Offer emotional support, through touch, hugs, or whatever is REQUESTED by the family.
Cultural competency is the organization structures broad strokes definition of the entirety of a community. Normally filled with generalizations and assumptions of the population, Cultural Humility is more a CURIOSITY and INVESTIGATION into the PERSON. It is the engagement of the person beneath the “iceberg” rather than that of what’s perceived on the surface. This EXPLORATION comes with questions from the requestor to the patient’s family, not assumptions based merely on appearance.
CULTURAL DIGNITY creates an openness, safe to be “who they are.” Patient’s family is left feeling acknowledged, supported, and with their dignity intact and they were dealt with integrity.
Our patients do not lives in our CULTURE! We must MEET them in theirs. MEET them where they ARE! In some cases, the understanding of disease, illness, and death itself can be difficult to grasp for the family given the wealth of emotions they may be dealing with in the moment. Remember, while you may be present in this experience in clinical and intellectual sense, their experience may be solely emotional.
Experiences are different than diagnosis.
Distinguish between magical thinking vs Reality? What is their understanding that allows for magical thinking.
Our data collection was not limited to just that of demographic and clinical details, we also collected testimonials from family members, deviations of standards of care practices, observations of staff cultural competency as it relates to this population.
We created an online data base. What you see is a copy of our electronic intake form. It tracked all of the common information seen in most OPO’s, but there’s a wealth of additional data not traditionally tracked by OPO to include testimonials, deviation of standard of care, social economic status, ethnic background, specific religious adherents and practices.
Including a consent done at the Sacramento County Jail of a mother suspected of NAT of her own child.
2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
7/3(2 PDSA declines) 11/5(1 PDSA consent) 6/8 4/6
78.7% 68% 57% 40% 23%
Always keeping the NEEDS of THOSE WE SERVE and their families at the forefront of what we do.
Engaging organizational and senior leadership support to help reduce barriers and obstacles that may occur.
Focusing on strategies to facilitate the spread and sustainability of this EFFORT.
In order that we SAVE lives tomorrow and in the days and years to come, we must leave today committed to the level of courage and selflessness that our DONOR family exemplifies. When given the hard choice, THESE FAMILIES chose to GIVE, they chose to SERVE! They chose a path that certainly at the very least IS uncomfortable. But look at what that BRINGS--- LIFE! We MUST put aside ourselves, for the better of all, for ALL are whom we serve. IMAGINE If every person on this call, including myself---OPO staff, ICU nurses and physicians, Hospital Administrators and ancillary staff commit to this example of selflessness and service now, over the next year many lives will be impacted? Bodies will be healed; families will be comforted, because lives will be saved.
SO I ask you, what choice will you make when today? Will you let the ordinary and the familiar routines as you return to your respective places of employment lead you away from what WE shared here today?
As the echoes of the words spoken become mere whispers, and the emotions WE have shared become faded recollections of a whimsical day, will the routines of your comforts paralyze you to inaction and apathy?
Or will you take what WE have been given here today and let this newfound SPIRIT of COOPERATION and TEAMWORK guide US to selflessly serve ALL who we are in NEED?
The CHOICE is yours---Unite as ONE team across this GREAT NATION with ONE mission and the COMPLEX will become SIMPLE and the impossible becomes POSSIBLE.
This is my BLUFF!!!