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The document summarizes a study on how women in managerial positions in Texas's 15 most populated counties have adopted transformational leadership styles to address gender bias in public administration. A survey using questions from the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire was distributed to 150 women, with 25 responding. The results showed that the women strongly exhibited transformational leadership behaviors and less transactional and laissez-faire styles. The study provided evidence that transformational leadership can help women overcome biases, but had limitations like sample size that could be addressed in future research.
Agnesian Work & Wellness Employee Assistance Program - Supervisor TrainingAgnesian HealthCare
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SABSA COSAC APAC 2019 - Mental Health and the Information Security Community:...Simon Harvey
A presentation given to The SABSA Institute's COSAC APAC 2019 conference around the issue of mental health in our profession, our organisations, and the stakeholders we interact with on a daily basis. A call-to-action for us all to think about how our professional and personal roles impacts our own mental health ... and how mental heath issues impact all of our professional and personal roles.
AISA BrisSec 2019: Mental Health and the InfoSec Community - We Need To TalkSimon Harvey
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This document summarizes a presentation on the state of women in engineering. It includes statistics on the representation of women within engineering occupations and faculty positions. It also discusses research findings on why so few women enter and remain in engineering fields. Social and cultural factors that influence the pipeline at different stages from K-12 through the workplace are examined. Emerging themes around biases in engineering teamwork cultures and the intersections of gender and race are also covered. The discussion concludes with recommendations to promote more inclusive policies, practices, and work environments to better support women in engineering.
This document outlines an in-service training for police sergeants on ethical leadership. It discusses the differences between leadership, management, and command and how sergeants must practice all three. The training also covers practical leadership skills like engaging employees, giving feedback, listening, and apologizing. It emphasizes the importance of relational leadership, which provides both support and accountability. Overall, the training aims to help sergeants strengthen the department's culture and develop their officers through ethical, people-focused leadership.
This document provides an overview of the Psychology Summer Institute (PSI). It summarizes that PSI is organized by the American Psychological Association's Minority Fellowship Program to provide skills training, professional development, mentoring and networking opportunities for ethnic minority fellows. The goals of PSI are to help fellows create or further develop a concrete project and advance their careers. Activities during PSI include skills workshops, advocacy training, presentations, mentoring sessions, and networking events.
The document summarizes a study on how women in managerial positions in Texas's 15 most populated counties have adopted transformational leadership styles to address gender bias in public administration. A survey using questions from the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire was distributed to 150 women, with 25 responding. The results showed that the women strongly exhibited transformational leadership behaviors and less transactional and laissez-faire styles. The study provided evidence that transformational leadership can help women overcome biases, but had limitations like sample size that could be addressed in future research.
Agnesian Work & Wellness Employee Assistance Program - Supervisor TrainingAgnesian HealthCare
The document provides information about an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including reasons for EAPs, scope of services, confidentiality, objectives, types of referrals, signs of troubled employees, addressing problem behaviors, and employee defense strategies. The EAP is designed to offer counseling services to employees experiencing personal issues impacting work through consultation, assessment, and referrals.
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This document summarizes a presentation on the state of women in engineering. It includes statistics on the representation of women within engineering occupations and faculty positions. It also discusses research findings on why so few women enter and remain in engineering fields. Social and cultural factors that influence the pipeline at different stages from K-12 through the workplace are examined. Emerging themes around biases in engineering teamwork cultures and the intersections of gender and race are also covered. The discussion concludes with recommendations to promote more inclusive policies, practices, and work environments to better support women in engineering.
This document outlines an in-service training for police sergeants on ethical leadership. It discusses the differences between leadership, management, and command and how sergeants must practice all three. The training also covers practical leadership skills like engaging employees, giving feedback, listening, and apologizing. It emphasizes the importance of relational leadership, which provides both support and accountability. Overall, the training aims to help sergeants strengthen the department's culture and develop their officers through ethical, people-focused leadership.
This document provides an overview of the Psychology Summer Institute (PSI). It summarizes that PSI is organized by the American Psychological Association's Minority Fellowship Program to provide skills training, professional development, mentoring and networking opportunities for ethnic minority fellows. The goals of PSI are to help fellows create or further develop a concrete project and advance their careers. Activities during PSI include skills workshops, advocacy training, presentations, mentoring sessions, and networking events.
Applications of Lean Leadership Methods in Home-Based CareValue Capture
Presented by Cooper Linton
Associate Vice President, Duke HomeCare & Hospice
Hosted by Mark Graban of Value Capture
Learning Objectives
In this webinar, you will learn practical lessons that can be applied to any setting, not just home care:
The fundamentals that guided the Lean journey at Duke HomeCare & Hospice
Why committing to zero harm is such an important fundamental belief
Why it's crucial for the organization to capture good catches, close calls, and near misses
How safety huddles and tiered huddles provide a structured format
Why "A3 thinking" must become the organizational culture
Challenges to implementing Lean in home-based care
Cooper Linton
Associate Vice President, Duke HomeCare & Hospice
Cooper Linton has worked in the healthcare industry for over 20 years with a passionate focus on home and community-based care. His professional background includes strategic planning, healthcare operations, certificate of need, marketing, business development, and healthcare construction. He currently serves as the associate vice president for Duke HomeCare, Duke Hospice, and Duke Home Infusion. Cooper also co-hosts a podcast, Edge of Aging, around healthcare and aging issues. He has a passion around healthcare access for the medically underserved as well as a desire to enhance access to services for caregivers.
Mr. Linton holds a Masters in Healthcare Administration and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he also completed his Graduate Certificate in Gerontology. Cooper believes that his greatest “real world” education came through his role as a caregiver while he shared the care-journey of his parents. When not working, Cooper is happily busy as a husband, father, and an avid outdoorsman.
Performance Improvement and Leadership in the Health Service IrSPEN_10 March ...Steven Kinnear
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The document discusses the work of Altogether Better, an organization that trains community health champions. It notes that they have worked with over 21,500 champions. The organization pioneered the health champion model in 2008 and has since developed tailored champion models for specific groups. It is described as taking a whole system approach to create new relationships between citizens and health services with the potential to transform services.
This document summarizes an ED director's presentation on using Lean principles and processes to drive cultural change and improve performance in the emergency department. The director discusses how their hospital used Lean interventions like value stream mapping, Kaizen events, and daily huddles to reduce wait times, lengths of stay, and improve patient satisfaction. Targets were set to reduce admission throughput time to under 60 minutes and get overall ED length of stay under 3 hours. Through engaging staff and continuous improvement efforts over several years, they were able to meet these goals and see patient satisfaction rankings rise from the 50s to the 90s percentile.
As pioneers in their field, Dr. Rosie Ward and Dr. Jon Robison are known for challenging the status quo, and for introducing fresh, bold ideas for transforming workplaces based on the most up-to-date scientific revelations. In this fast-paced, 60-minute webinar, Ward and Robison lay the foundation for why we have been stuckwhen it comes to organizational and employee wellbeing. Then they provide their exclusive 7 Points of Transformation blueprint to help you leave decades of ineffective approaches behind, and begin a more sustainable, effective journey to building a thriving culture in your workplace.
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One in three workers observes misconduct such as lying, withholding information, abuse, or discrimination. However, two in five workers do not report misconduct due to fears of retaliation or being viewed as a troublemaker. Employees care about ethics and want their employers to do what is right rather than just what is profitable. While leaders perceive ethics more positively in their organizations, lower level employees report feeling pressure to compromise standards and see more frequent misconduct, especially where there is regular pressure to break rules. When leaders model ethical behavior, employees feel less pressure to commit misconduct and report higher satisfaction.
In 2011, we took it upon ourselves to break down our patient care and examine it from the time the patient arrived (regardless of method) to the time they departed (again, regardless of method). Over the next year, we developed and implemented an end-to-end strategy of patient care and flow, where all decisions were under the scrutiny of what was deemed to be ‘patient-centric’. This process of self-improvement led us to develop a scalable, replicable template for hospitals of all shapes and sizes. Too often, patient flow hurdles and patient care problems are addressed solely through the vantage of individual departments at the expense of efficiency. Our presentation is the result of a personal, real-time experience.
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Everyone knows it costs less to retain a donor than to acquire a new one. Knowing as much as you can about your donors can help you keep them involved with your organization and ease the way to donor retention. The right data can help you look beyond the numbers and figure out how and why donors connect — and stay — with you.
In this webinar, our experienced group of speakers discuss the best ways to break down silos of data to best understand your donors, and how to use this information to engage in meaning conversations with donors that promote life-long giving habits. This Fundraising Success webinar, sponsored by CDS Global, features speakers Kevin Schulman, CEO of DonorVoice; Leslie Monk, Director of Sponsor Care at ChildFund, and Jamey Heinze, CMO of CDS Global. More than 1,000 people registered and there was a lot of lively Q&A. Access the webinar below, and learn:
• What things besides numbers are important when it comes to knowing your donors
• How to determine donors’ interest in supporting your cause and what keeps them engaged
• How to pull together data from various sources to get a 360 degree view of your donor
• The value of collecting and acting upon donor feedback as a strategy for donor retention
*Watch the webinar: http://cds-global.com/resources/webinar-key-donor-retention/
Follow us on Twitter: @CDSGlobalNP & @FundraisingSuccess
#FSWebinar
The Strategic Imperative for InnovationJane Chiang
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1) The US health care system spends more than other countries but does not achieve better outcomes, focusing more on acute treatment rather than prevention and chronic disease management. Major reforms through the PPACA and HCERA are attempting to transition the system to a new model.
2) There are significant barriers to changing the existing system, which is expensive, overbuilt, underperforming, and rooted in outdated paradigms. Professionals have resisted changes that impact their established roles, autonomy, and business models.
3) For the system to truly reform, it needs new practice
The document provides an overview of geriatric assessment techniques. It describes how to evaluate older adults' physical, cognitive, and psychosocial functioning. Key areas of assessment include activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living, gait and falls risk, cognitive screening tools like the Mini-Mental State Exam, and depression screening. The document demonstrates these assessment techniques through examples and videos. It also provides case studies to demonstrate how assessment informs clinical decision making for older patients.
The document provides an overview of geriatric assessment techniques. It describes how to evaluate older adults' physical, cognitive, and psychosocial functioning. Key areas of assessment include activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living, gait and falls risk, cognitive screening tools like the Mini-Mental State Exam and Mini-Cog, and depression screening scales. The document demonstrates these assessment techniques through examples and videos. It also provides cases to demonstrate how assessments inform care for older patients.
(2012) The Gordian Knot for rural and remote mental health services: examinin...Dr. Chiachen Cheng
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Cheng et al. 2012. Lakehead University Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research (CRaNHR). November 2012. Thunder Bay, ON, Canada.
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Mr Grant Brand: Lessons Learned in the First Nine Years of the Glasgow ARBD TeamAlcoholForum.org
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In this webinar, you will learn:
- How to apply Lean thinking in unique settings
- Examples of waste and opportunities for improvement in a veterinary office setting
- How patients, clients, veterinarians, and staff benefit from Lean
- Examples of improvements using Lean methods
This document outlines a sleep program checklist for a long term care facility with operational, clinical, and environmental systems to promote better sleep for residents. It includes eliminating unnecessary noise and tasks at night, assessing sleep preferences, reviewing medications and procedures to minimize disturbances, using appropriate lighting, educating on sleep importance, and monitoring interventions and quality of life scores related to sleep.
Linda Shell presented on the importance of sleep for elders. She explained sleep architecture and the benefits of each sleep stage. Factors like pain, medications, light exposure, and physical activity can impact sleep. Screening tools like PAINAD can help assess sleep quality in cognitively impaired elders. Non-pharmacological interventions like relaxation, sunlight, and exercise can enhance sleep. Proper sleep hygiene including schedules, environments and limiting daytime naps are important.
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The fundamentals that guided the Lean journey at Duke HomeCare & Hospice
Why committing to zero harm is such an important fundamental belief
Why it's crucial for the organization to capture good catches, close calls, and near misses
How safety huddles and tiered huddles provide a structured format
Why "A3 thinking" must become the organizational culture
Challenges to implementing Lean in home-based care
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2) There are significant barriers to changing the existing system, which is expensive, overbuilt, underperforming, and rooted in outdated paradigms. Professionals have resisted changes that impact their established roles, autonomy, and business models.
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ATX17- “Creating a Patient Safety Chain”
1. Creating a Patient Safety Chain
www.thegreenhouseproject.org
David Farrell, MSW, LNHA
Director
2. High Performing Organizations
Three Common Elements • Culture – person-centered care
• Workforce commitment
• Leadership practices
All three are interdependent
Grant, L. 2008
3. Results are Interrelated
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Implement person-centered
Employee satisfaction
Workforce stability
Consumer satisfaction
Good clinical outcomes
Regulatory compliance
High occupancy rate and mix
Grant, L. 2008
4. Low Performing Organizations
Three Common Elements • Culture – task-centered care
• Unstable workforce
• Leadership practices
All three are interdependent
5. Results are Interrelated
• Sustain institutional model
• Employee dissatisfaction
• Workforce instability
– High turnover of new hires, high retention of low
performers, high absenteeism
• Consumer dissatisfaction
• Poor clinical outcomes
• Lack of regulatory compliance
• Low occupancy rate and mix
6. Vicious Cycle of Low Performer
Staff Instability
• Leadership turnover
• Crises
• Correcting and in-servicing
• Trim staffing
• Low morale
• Cut costs
• Poor attendance
Poor Outcomes
Limited
Resources
• Clinical, Survey, HR, Q of Life
• Fewer higher paying patients
• Fewer physicians willing to recommend
7. All Nursing Homes Have Tipping Points
Assume decline
happens steadily…
but…
it
can
happen
all
at
once.
8. The Tipping Point How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
By Malcom Gladwell
9. Organizational Change and Epidemics
Characteristics of Epidemics
• Contagiousness
• Little changes have a big impact
• Tipping point
10. Epidemics are a Function of • People who spread infections
• Infectious agent
• Environment surrounding infectious agent
Epidemics tip when changes occur in one, two
or three of these areas
11. Three Agents of Change in Social Epidemics
1.) The Law of the Few
Leaders that infect people
2.) The Power of Context
Environment
3.) The Stickiness Factor
Messages that trigger action
12. The Law of the Few
• Special skills
• Connectors
• Some people matter more than others
– In epidemics – it’s a tiny # of people
– Quality Improvement works the same way
13. “The Tipping Point” - The Power of Context
New York City 1980’s
• 2,000 murders a year
• 600,000 felonies
• NYC Subway System
– 6,000 trains covered in graffiti
– Fare-beating common practice
– Ridership at an all-time low
Gladwell, M., 2000
14. New York City Early 1990’s
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Murders dropped to 667
Felonies plunged to 3,000
Not a gradual decline
Crime plummeted – it TIPPED!
15. NYC Transit Authority
• Hired George Kelling
• Advisors said – “focus on the big issues”
• Instead – Painted the graffiti and stopped fare-beating
– “Small infractions symbolic of collapse”
• Utilized the “broken windows” theory
Gladwell, M., 2000
16. Broken Windows Theory
• Crime results from disorder
• Broken windows and graffiti = no one cares
– Leads to more broken windows and graffiti
– Results in crime on the street
• Social “broken windows” –
– Aggressive panhandling
– Public disorder
Wilson, J., Kelling, G., 1984
17. “Broken Windows” in Healthcare Settings
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Vacant shifts
Dirty depressing break room
Illegible forms
Overflowing charts
Frayed binders
Patients screaming out
Physical restraints
Old Geri-chairs
Disorder at the nursing station
18. Applied to Low-Performers
• Can be tipped by evidence-based changes
– Leadership, Environment, Communication
• Employees influenced by little things
– Acutely aware and sensitive
– Graffiti on the building and chaos at nursing
station = call-outs, skipped treatments, neglect
19. Oakland – I Volunteered
Baseline measures - January 2011
• Red ink for years
• Restraints 15%
• Pressure ulcers 9%
• Average of 40 call-outs per month
– 1st weekend 10 call-outs and 7 falls
• Long history of non-compliance
20. Which Nursing Homes Close?
• “Critical Access” nursing homes
• Variables associated with closure
– Urban zip codes
– Serving minorities
– Pockets of concentrated poverty
– High Medicaid population
Mor, V., 2011
21. The Impact of Leaders
Healthcare organizations
• Leader’s actions influence:
– Culture
Relationships
– Staff engagement
– Clinical outcomes
– Quality of life
23. “What a Difference Management Makes”
• Paired 4 high vs. 4 low turnover facilities
– 159 on-site interviews
• Areas that distinguished low vs. high
– Leadership visibility
– Cared for caregivers
– Orientation, career ladders, scheduling
– Primary assignments
– Rarely worked short
Eaton, Phase II Final Report, 2001
24. A Vicious Cycle
Vacant Shifts
• Financial
burden
• Instability
• Working short staffed
• Resentment
• Poor
outcomes
• Waiting
• Lack of
trust
• Anxiety
• Vacant
Shifts
Turnover
Stress
• Errors
• Poor judgment
• Injuries
• Fractured relationships
Eaton, Phase II Final Report, 2001
25. The Impact of High Absenteeism
Vacant shifts = more or different patients
What do C.N.A.’s skip –
– Range of motion
– Hydration
– Feeding
– Bathing
Hawes, 2002
26. Absenteeism is Inevitable?
Sick Days and Demographics of US Workers • 5 = average sick days
• 6 sick days for women and 4 for men
• 3 = sick days college graduates
• 8 = sick days H.S. diploma or less
• 9 = sick days of divorced or separated
• 4 sick days for married or never married
• 13 = sick days of those on Medicaid
• 3 sick days for those covered by insurance
CDC, National Health Interview 2011
27. Who are the CNAs?
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Total 1.47 million
Deliver 80% of hands-on care
90% are women
51% are non-white
Average age is 38
50% are near or below the poverty line
41% rely on public benefits
GAO, 2001
National Clearinghouse on the Direct care Workforce, 2006
BLS 2006, FHCEF 2010
30. WFR Collaborative Findings
What does it feel like when understaffed?
• “Stressful; no lunch break, your back hurts.”
• “Unsafe for patients and self.”
• “Hectic – finger nails do not get clipped,
men don’t get shaved, people are left with
empty cups.”
• “Hell.”
31. WFR Findings
Continued
What happens that leads your co-workers to call-off?
• “Just tired mentally. Overwhelmed and can’t
overcome it.”
• “Burnout if you worked 7 am to 11 pm the day before.”
• “Stress – someone is always asking you to stay late.”
Top reasons for call-offs:
• Sickness of self
• Sick family member
• Baby sitter problem
32. WFR Findings
Continued
What does it feel like when you have enough staff?
• “Relief – feel you accomplished something.”
• “I can do little things for the residents like give
them a hug.”
• “I can give them a back rub, talk to them, I can
take the time to be more human.”
33. Addressing Absenteeism
Why do staff call-off?
Why does absenteeism vary from
SNF to SNF?
What motivates staff to come to work
more consistently?
What are the SNFs that have low
rates of absenteeism doing?
34. Cause and Effect Diagram
Systems
People
High absenteeism
Environment
Equipment/Supplies
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35. Collect Data
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Single point person
Review individual records daily, monthly
% of shifts worked understaffed
Focus - Total number of call-offs per month
Individual’s and facility trends
– By day of the week, month
– By unit, shift
36. No-Fault Attendance Policy
If call-off – it counts
No more qualifying absences
Removes inequity
No need for physician notes
– Just be honest
• Absences are simply measured
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37. Goal – A Perfectly Staffed Day
No all-outs and no sick pay hours
No registry hours
No light duty assignments
No orientation hours
Fully staffed to budget – every shift, every
neighborhood
• Total hours = 378
• Overtime = less than 1% (or 4 OT hours)
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38. Consistent Feedback
• Leadership accountability
– Set the example
• Discuss attendance and its’ impact
– Rewards and recognition
Individuals and groups
– Show data
• Individual feedback
– Letters with attendance record quarterly
39. You Are Important
“We missed you yesterday…and the residents did
too. I hope your son is feeling better. We are a better
place when you are here.”
Performance
Compassion
41. Eaton’s Findings on Scheduling
Most Common Reason for Termination
• Flexible in low turnover facilities
– Allow for different start times
– Consider personal lives
• Rigid in high turnover facilities
– In response to problems
– “Personal life is not my problem.”
Eaton, Phase II Final Report,
2001
42. A Root-Cause of Absenteeism on the PM Shift?
www.thegreenhouseproject.org
Nurse Ratchet
44. Scheduling Success
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Allow staff to trade days
Honor requests for time off
Increase FT and decrease PT
Avoid every other weekend off
4 on 2 off
Consistent assignments
– Indicate assignment on the master
schedule
45. 4 on 2 off schedule
Even # of CNA assignments
3 CNAs serve 2 resident assignments
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46. Proactive Replacement Plan
• Call employee who called off
– Show concern
– Replace for next shift?
• Replacement priority list daily
– On-Call confirmed to come in
– Name, phone number
– Best time to call
47. If Working Short Staffed
• Have a plan
• All hands on deck
• Managers and non-nursing staff assist
48. Empowerment = Engagement
• Empower employees by giving them:
– Knowledge of what is expected
– Skills, resources and supplies
– Feedback on how they are doing
– Feedback on how the facility is performing
– Opportunity to improve work processes
– Opportunity to provide feedback (surveys)
– Consistent assignments
49. Staffing Models
Consistent Assignment =
Consistently assigning the same caregivers to the
same nursing home residents every day
Rotating Assignment =
Rotating caregivers from one group of residents to
the next after a period of time
50. Support for Consistent Assignment
• Results from 13 research studies:
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Enhanced relationships
Improved staff attendance
Improved staff, resident, family satisfaction
Lower staff turnover
Improved accuracy, timeliness:
screening and assessments
– Improved clinical outcomes
– Improved quality of life
Allow for individualized care
51. Same SNF – Different Units
Consistent Assignment:
Rotating Assignment:
Top Five Stressors
Top Five Stressors
• Preventing Falls
• Low Wage
• Stubborn Residents
• Abusive Residents
• Terminal Residents
• Heavy Workload
• Depressed Residents • Disagreements w/ Coworkers
• Death as Emotional Stress
• Lack of Staff
Gruss, V. et al., 2004
52. Who Preaches the Benefits?
Those who support consistent assignment:
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Eden
LEAP
ActionPact
Pioneer Network
CMS
National Commission on Nursing Workforce for LTC
Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs)
Culture change coalitions
Advancing Excellence Campaign
53. Theory of Relational Coordination
• The effectiveness of care and service is determined
by the quality of communication among staff
• Which depends on the quality of the underlying
relationships
• The quality of the relationships reinforce the quality
of the communication
Gittell, et al, 2008
56. Trigger Relational Coordination
Leadership actions • Increase Communication
– Frequent, timely
– Accurate
– Model problem solving
• Enhance Staff Relationships
– Shared goals
– Enhance knowledge
– Model mutual respect
57. Relational Coordination Works
• Significantly associated with –
– Enhanced resident quality of life
– Higher nursing assistant job satisfaction
• Evident in SNFs implementing person-centered care
Gittell, et al, 2008
59. Relational Coordination Tipping Points
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Ample higher quality supplies
Resident transfer equipment
Staff composition
Consistent assignment
Systems of regular communication
– Report between shifts
– Safety huddles
60. Systems of Communication
Key changes –
Change of shift huddles
Start of shift huddles
Mid-shift safety huddles
Standing root-cause analysis
End of shift check in and follow up
64. Mood / Posture / Paradigm
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Flip the switch
You are in the spotlight
Make eye contact
Praise, build self-esteem
Smile
Linger
65. Content – What You Say and Do
Trigger higher performance • Say - “I’m worried about…I’m proud about…
thanks for helping her with that…that was nice of
you…the residents really love you…I notice that
you really care…thanks for being here today…I
really like working with you”
• Do – Answer call lights…hold doors open…sit in
the break room…sit at the end of a residents bed
and talk to them…shake hands…carry a leftover
food tray back to the kitchen…move a linen barrel
to the right spot…slow down…go look
everywhere…
66. Invisibility
“The problem is not motivation. It is the
ways in which we unintentionally
de-motivate employees.”
Quint Studer
67. Timing of Rounds
Priority is Visibility
• Before morning stand-up meeting
• Lunch
• Shift change
• Last rounds
• Weekends
• Nights
69. Drivers of Staff Engagement
• Management cares
• Management listens
• Help with job stress
MyInnerView, Inc. 2011
70. Employee Engagement
• The amount of discretionary effort and
care that employees put into their jobs
above and beyond the minimum required
• Want the organization to succeed
• Feel connected –
– Emotionally
– Socially
– Spiritually
71. Employees are Engaged When • Leaders’ are engaged
• Understand the business and their role in
its’ success
• Trust leadership is making good decisions
• Feel valued and appreciated
• Are well informed
72. Notes to Staff – Make the Message stick
Monday 2/21/11
• Congratulations to Cynthia Poppens – February Employee of the Month! Also
– Congratulations to Laurianne Niko – February Rookie of the Month! Both of
these C.N.A.’s exemplify our core values. It’s an honor to work with both of
you! On behalf of everyone here – thank you!
• Thanks you for accepting and wearing your new name badges. By displaying
our place of birth on our name badges we can all be transparent and celebrate
the tremendous diversity that we have here. Our staff speak 21 different first
languages! I’m proud of that fact and of all of you. I see great people here.
• Our next community meeting will be held on 2/25/11. Please join us for
updates, education, recognition, good food and rewards.
• We are starting to get some new admissions and this is very good news for us.
Every new admission needs a warm welcome from our staff. Be sure to reach
out to strangers and say “Hello.” If you want to reflect in a friendly home – be
friendly…act friendly…smile at people!
I continue to proudly serve as your interim Administrator. If you need anything,
please come and see me, call my cell phone or send me an email. Thank you
for all that you are doing to enhance our residents’ lives here!
Sincerely, David Farrell 510-725-7409
dfarrell@snfmgt.com
73. Community Meetings
• Simple metrics
– Human resource
– Clinical outcomes
– Business results
• Benchmark and compare
• Strategic plan
• What – How - Why
74. Decline in Pressure Ulcers – What, How, Why
Huddles started
New admissions
Plan implemented PUSH tool adopted
Root-cause
Analysis done
New mattresses
in place
All staff in-service
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76. Community Meetings
The messages stick with emotion backed by data
• Tell a story
• Predictability
• Optimism
• “I care about you.”
• Celebrate positives – Employee and Rookie of the month
– Raffles
– Visibly Strengthen Patient Safety Chain
77. Rewarding Quality Performance
Who do we recognize?
Who gets rewarded?
What do they get?
Is the recognition fair and based on clear
goals?
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78. Recognition
• Gratitude
• Thank you cards are powerful
– Send them to staff members’ homes
– “I appreciate you”
– “I am glad you work for us. On behalf of the
residents, their families and your co-workers –
Thank you.”
80. Drivers of Consumer Satisfaction
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Caring staff
Competent staff
Choices and preferences
Nursing care
Responsive management
Respectfulness of staff
MyInnerView, Inc. 2011
81. Comprehensive People Assessment
• Meet with key leaders with a list of all staff
• Rate every employee
* = Triple crown winners – reliable/skills/attitude
> = Lowest rated staff
? = Unreliable but excellent skills and attitude
! = Reliable but poor skills and attitude
82. People Assessment
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Focus on the triple crown winners
Shift from tolerance to quality improvement
Publicly share the performance standards
Have conversations – give feedback
Make changes
86. Bad is Stronger Than Good
Some turnover can have a positive effect
• Eliminate the negative
• Negative feelings = greater effects
– Interdependent work = larger negative effect
• Grumpiness and laziness are contagious
Felps, W. 2001
87. First Who…Then What
Three simple truths • Key to adapting to change
• Motivation and management
• Wrong people
Collins, 2001
88. Careful Selection
Ask the right questions to screen for key
character traits:
• Observe their interactions
• Maturity – self reflection
• Compassionate
• Sensitivity to others needs
• Self esteem
• Ability to communicate, learn
• Friendliness, 5 smiles
89. Environment Impacts People
Signals disorder:
Not one living indoor plant
Neglected courtyards
Dead space
Broken furniture
Mismatched chairs
90. Tipping Point – July 2011
• Profitable
• Culture changed
• Kept up with initial changes
– Community meetings, awards, staff stability,
thank you cards, healthy snacks, painting, art
work, heritage days, notes to staff
91. Care, Listen, Prevent Stress
Oakland - 70 Changes
• Some were small and simple
• Some were big and complex
92. Oakland – 9 Months Later
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Employee satisfaction top 5%
Deficiencies dropped 35%
Medicare census doubled
Restraints eliminated
Attendance improved 50%
Overtime declined by 50%
Pressure ulcers declined to 1%
A you recall from the first LS, Eaton identified the following vicious cycles that occurs in facilities.
This can happen fast.
Interview only on Tuesdays at 11
Graffitti, trash, overgrown trees and shrubs
What to do with the data?
Follow the path in G to G
Here we are twenty six years later, and the largest data base of resident and family satisfaction in the nation essentially says the same thing – it’s all about the people who work there. Do they care? Do they know what they are doing? Do they offer choice? Do they listen? Do they love?
What to do with the data?
Follow the path in G to G
What to do with the data?
Follow the path in G to G
What to do with the data?
Follow the path in G to G
In researching the links between quality leadership and quality of care I have found some clear patterns emerge.
It is important to note that, the modern nursing home , as we know it today, has been around for less than 40 years.
Now, there is a growing body of research-based evidence that supports the fact that leaders of successful nursing homes engage in certain activities on a consistent basis that the leaders of unsuccessful nursing homes do not.
It’s more about practices than personality.
There is some thing about the organizational makeup of these fragile ecosystems we call SNFs that make them very susceptible to poor leadership practices. However, because of their fragility, they are also very responsive to excellent leadership actions.
Administrators and DONs have an extremely strong influence on the performance of Skilled Nursing Facilities
As the research evidence grows, we will come to know these certain leadership activities of successful facilities to be universal truths – unarguable natural laws related to creating a culture of excellence and improving quality of care.
Similar to the approach by Jim Collins in G to G, Professor Susan Eaton from Harvard, conducted a very interesting research study.
The burning question for her was – why do we have such extreme variation in turnover rates among SNFs located within the same geographic regions (who re essentially just down the street from one another), offering the same starting salaries, employing the same types of people, offering the same staffing ratios and what difference does management practices make.
She looked for and found a total of eight facilities, 4 with high rates of turnover and 4 with low rates of turnover, each of the contrasting pairs were located within the same labor market.
She then went on-site and conducted 159 interviews and made observations seeking to explain the variation.
She identified 5 distinct areas –
High quality leadership and management, offering recognition, meaning, and feedback as well as the opportunity to see one’s work as valued and valuable; managers who built on the intrinsic motivation of workers in this field
An organizational culture, communicated by managers, families, supervisors, and nurses themselves, of valuing and respecting the nursing caregivers themselves as well as residents
Basic positive or ‘high performance’ Human Resource policies, including wages and benefits but also in the areas of ‘soft’ skills and flexibility, training and career ladders, scheduling, realistic job previews, etc.
Thoughtful and effective, motivational work organization and care practices
Adequate staffing ratios and support for giving high quality care
The best part about her research study is the specifics, the how-to, regarding the actions that leaders must take on a consistent basis.
A you recall from the first LS, Eaton identified the following vicious cycles that occurs in facilities.
This can happen fast.
Example – Braintree Manor
Relationship to clinical care – most fac. Tie their skin check system to the shower schedule. Therefore, even if a fac. Is only short staffed two days in a week, if those days happen to fall on Mabel’s shower day, she may go ten days without a full body check. This is where a stage one is not identified and turns into a stage two.
Low morale
Poor clinical outcomes
Rushed, hurried depersonalized care
Facilities with chronic absenteeism usually have high turnover. Therefore, we must address the issue of absenteeism.
A Complex Organizational problem– There is no perfect plan. The root causes in each of your facilities is different. Therefore, they require careful analysis before deciding on interventions. However, there are best practices out there.
Some organizations actually have systems that encourage absenteeism.
Company-wide attendance problems are the sign of a sick system, not a sick employee.
Oftentimes, we react to the problem as if getting tougher on the violators will solve the problem. In this sense we are blaming the problem on the personal short comings of the staff rather than looking at our own organizational or leadership practices as the cause.
Morale – facilities with absenteeism problems have morale problems.
Quality – absenteeism leads to tired staff or vacant shifts – both of which have a negative effect on q of care and life.
Service – absenteeism leads to delayed, or worse, denied service.
Safety – tired staff and vacant shifts leads to workplace injuries.
Retention – often, the vicious cycle of turnover starts with flawed organizational systems related to scheduling and absenteeism.
16% live in poverty
25% have no health insurance
Why do they enter this field – based on the research, they intentionally choose LTC, not because they do not have other options, but because they have a desire to help others.
Single moms at or near the poverty line have limited resources to fall back on when their kid is sick or their car won’t start.
In addition, we know that most are uninsured. In fact, most for-profit chains encourage it by offering as much a $1 more per hour to entice staff to waive their right to coverage. 25% have no health insurance
Avg. age is 37, 10% are over 55, 50% have at least one child under 18
20% are below the poverty line 75% have a high school diploma
Avg. rate is $9.85 = $ 20,500 per year. Cashiers make $7.60 All occup. Avg. is $13.50 30-35% receive food stamps.
Four major causes of stress – Pillemer -
lack of time, lack of good supervision, lack of staff, lack of training in psych/social aspects of care giving.
NOT unskilled labor.
Example - Philome
These are the people I worked with at Braintree Manor on PMs and NOCs. I was not welcome into the group. In fact, I ate all of my meals alone. Looking back, I realize now how poorly I was trained and how alienated I felt. It was only the residents that kept me coming back. Ironically, I was fired for visiting the residents when I was not on the clock – I policy I ignored.
The link between turnover and quality has been empirically established.
Instability in the schedule
Facilities with chronic absenteeism usually have high turnover. Therefore, we must address the issue of absenteeism.
A Complex Organizational problem– There is no perfect plan. The root causes in each of your facilities is different. Therefore, they require careful analysis before deciding on interventions. However, there are best practices out there.
Some organizations actually have systems that encourage absenteeism.
Company-wide attendance problems are the sign of a sick system, not a sick employee.
Oftentimes, we react to the problem as if getting tougher on the violators will solve the problem. In this sense we are blaming the problem on the personal short comings of the staff rather than looking at our own organizational or leadership practices as the cause.
Morale – facilities with absenteeism problems have morale problems.
Quality – absenteeism leads to tired staff or vacant shifts – both of which have a negative effect on q of care and life.
Service – absenteeism leads to delayed, or worse, denied service.
Safety – tired staff and vacant shifts leads to workplace injuries.
Retention – often, the vicious cycle of turnover starts with flawed organizational systems related to scheduling and absenteeism.
What happens that leads to call-offs?
It sounds like they are answering for themsleves
More human –
Does this imply that when they are understaffed you can not be human. That you shut down your human emotions in order to get through the shift.
In no case did the answers indicate that money was a factor.
Single point person – usually staffing coordinator
Review individual records monthly
Individual’s and facility trends
By day of the week
By unit, shift
Alert supervisors to alert individuals- before violation of policy
Average number of call-offs per employee per quarter
Report on the total number of call-offs per month
First and foremost, an effective program starts with collecting accurate data.
Collect data for each individual employee, department, facility both for absenteeism and the number of shifts worked short staffed.
Usually, having one person (and one back-up) coding and tracking absenteeism works best.
In terms of effective systems – this single point person would then review all of the attendance records monthly and alert supervisors of trends (both positive and negative) by making a copy of employees attendance records and sending them to their supervisors.
*Also, make a copy of the each employee’s attendance record on a quarterly basis and include it in the employee’s paycheck in order to provide them with regular and consistent feedback. Letters example.
*In addition, as part of the process of employee evaluations, they would make a copy of the employees attendance record and attach it to the appraisal forms to be completed.
These simple processes related to data collection and alerting supervisors are important and tell the staff you take the problem very serious.
*Bear in mind that the process of qualifying whether or not an absence is excused or not is important and those decisions can make or break the foundation of trust in an organization.
Some facilities have adopted a “no-fault” attendance policy – this takes the guess work out of trying to qualify absences. You are either here or you are not. No need for M.D. notes to justify an absence. Absences for any reason are all treated the same.
Takes leaders out of the position of
Single point person – usually staffing coordinator
Review individual records monthly
Individual’s and facility trends
By day of the week
By unit, shift
Alert supervisors to alert individuals- before violation of policy
Average number of call-offs per employee per quarter
Report on the total number of call-offs per month
First and foremost, an effective program starts with collecting accurate data.
Collect data for each individual employee, department, facility both for absenteeism and the number of shifts worked short staffed.
Usually, having one person (and one back-up) coding and tracking absenteeism works best.
In terms of effective systems – this single point person would then review all of the attendance records monthly and alert supervisors of trends (both positive and negative) by making a copy of employees attendance records and sending them to their supervisors.
*Also, make a copy of the each employee’s attendance record on a quarterly basis and include it in the employee’s paycheck in order to provide them with regular and consistent feedback. Letters example.
*In addition, as part of the process of employee evaluations, they would make a copy of the employees attendance record and attach it to the appraisal forms to be completed.
These simple processes related to data collection and alerting supervisors are important and tell the staff you take the problem very serious.
Beyond that – leaders are charged with keeping the issue at the forefront of everyone.
It should be a standard agenda item during dept. meetings.
*Recognition – there needs to be both public and private recognition for excellent attendance. On a quarterly basis, leaders should send thank you cards for good attendance.
*Reward reliable staff – allow staff to cash out one sick day per quarter for no call-offs. There are many other incentives facilities have designed. The key is, are you rewarding the right behavior.
Consider raffles and include only those staff in the raffle who had perfect attendance for a specified period of time.
*Reward improvement – for those who had poor attendance and received counseling, oftentimes, when they improve, it’s ignored. Therefore, leaders must seek out those who have had improvement and let the employee know that they noticed it and appreciate it.
*Reward new staff and allow them to cash out a sick day if no call offs in the first six months. Leaders are the key and they must set the example by having excellent attendance records themselves.
Care
Using the system I just described, leaders must meet with their staff as problems arise. Being concerned for the welfare of the employee and showing it and expressing it. Exploring how they may assist the staff member to solve the issues getting in the way.
Leaders should be fair yet firm. There will be individuals who have no legitimate excuse and they must be dealt with. But collecting good data allows you to identify these individuals.
However, this must be balanced with a genuine care and concern for the well being of the staff and their families.
“Know me, care about me, focus me”
WE de-motivate our staff when we don’t notice when people return from a call off-
“ I missed you yesterday- Is everything ok- the residents missed you- we worked understaffed but everyone chipped in.”
What your conveying to the employ is- you are an important person.
In Eaton’s study, she found that one of the most common reasons for termination were conflicts related to showing up at work not work performance.
She found some significant differences in practices and systems in the low vs. high turnover facilities in her study.
In low turnover homes, schedules were posted well in advance, sufficient notice was provided to the staff regarding open shifts or any changes to the schedule. The staff could rely on the consistency of it.
In the high turnover facilities, the scheduling was very haphazard as if it was as simple as placing peoples names on a sheet of paper. The schedule was seen by the staff as very chaotic. Changes were made to the schedule without sufficient notice to the staff and, in the staff’s view, without justification.
The first issue to identify is are the schedules rigid or flexible. The flexibly scheduled facilities in Eaton’s study had the least absenteeism and lowest turnover.
Consider personal lives – of the front-line staff. Handle call-offs with compassion and concern for the well being of the person calling in. Then, they assisted the employee with the problem at a later date. In Eaton’s low turnover facilities, the managers had an understanding of what their employees lives were like outside of work.
Rigid In response to problems – most facility leaders respond to attendance problems with more rigidity and disciplinary action.
“Personal life is not my problem.” – was a pervasive attitude among the leaders of high turnover facilities in Eaton’s study. Yet, in the low turnover homes, they had the opposite attitude and it showed in the way they treated the employee’s who called off.
Used as punishment – Changes in the schedule used as disciplinary action was a hated practice among the CNAs. In one example in her study, a C.N.A. was hired and requested day shift but accepted pm shift until a day shift position opened up. His attendance was fair but not perfect due working on pm shift did not fit his personal responsibilities outside of work. After working for a year, he found out that two new CNAs were hired to day shift. When he inquired as to why he was not moved to day shift as he had requested he was told he was not moved because of his attendance on .
It is interesting to note that both the high and low turnover facilities had full time scheduling coordinators. However, how this key, powerful individual handles this responsibility can make or break the organization.
Scheduling is complex and requires education. In addition, this individual should be carefully selected. If this individual appears to act with favoritism, the morale of the facility will sink to new depths. If they are rigid, turnover and absenteeism become more common.
Favoritism damages morale – Thus, the scheduler needs to be someone who is fair, flexible, friendly and focused on the elders. They are the most harassed person in the facility and they hold tremendous power.
Allow staff to trade days – the schedule may look like a mess and you may get some OT. But, the shifts are filled, you allowed the staff to do a favor for one another (trust).
Primary assignments and primary days – if you can set days and set assignments, you are well on your ways to improved attendance. Rotating days leads employees to guess when they may be off. In the last facility I managed, it worked great and our top performers worked almost every weekend.
Indicate assignment on the master schedule – by indicating which assignment a C.N.A. is working on the master schedule, you have eliminated that chaotic moment at the beginning of each shift when the C.N.A.’s are standing around the nursing station waiting for the charge nurse to give them their assignment.
Have a contingency plan for call offs.
Care about the staff by having a proactive replacement plan
Short term: - one shift
Clear policy regarding who to call and when to call off
(prevent tomorrows staffing issue today)
Call employee who called off – must have high levels of trust
Show concern – “Hope you are feeling better soon.”
Replace for next shift? – “In order to prevent short staffing, we want to be proactive and replace you now if you think that you will not be in for your next shift.”
Replacement priority list – in order
No overtime- for the replacement
Voluntary overtime no double time – 4 hours during peak time
Voluntary OT/DT – eat the expense to prevent working short
(employees who called off early in week)
Agency staff – if needed, but only if good and reliable (next slide)
Staff member who previously called off in pay period – ask this person last. Do not reward them for calling off for a regular shift by providing them with OT/DT. If you do, they earned more that week by calling off.
(set up-”who to cal if someone calls off list” lists
Staffing coordinator preps list daily for pms and Nocs
Detailed list for nurses and WE mgr
Leaders should be visible and help to diffuse stress when a shift will be understaffed.
Relieve licensed staff or C.N.A.’s of certain duties
Housekeepers pass trays and make beds
Dietary staff pass trays, pick up trays, pass water pitchers
D.O.N. complete some treatments
Managers assist on the floor –Answer call lights
Feed the staff – Assist in dining room
Pats on the back - Assist
This is one of the most difficult and time consuming aspects of the CC journey if you are focused on deep organizational change. To go from a paradigm of control requires high levels of trust within the organization. You simply can not rush the process of laying a foundation of trust.
When you build knowledge and skills you build self esteem in the frontline caregivers and confidence in the leaders that they can release control.
It takes longer to ask the staff for their feedback and input.
An empowered staff feels valuable and important. They come to work because they know they make a difference.
It is difficult to pull CNAS off the floor for care planning meetings. However, research shows that low turnover facilities find a way to get their input and demonstrate that their opinion matters.
the best decisions about how care should be carried out should be made by the front-line staff who know the resident. empower staff through extensive education, shared decision making and enhancing the critical thinking skills of the front-line staff.
Low turnover facilities utilize primary assignments of their staff. speaks to the power of primary assignments.
Why is that empowering – Primary assignments allow staff to really get to know the residents. They become the experts on a group of residents and everyone knows that they can go to them for answers. This is empowering and boosts peoples self-esteem.
In addition, primary assignments allow for staff to notice the clinical changes early before it’s too late. This is essential to reducing exposure and risk. Also, primary assignments reduce turnover because it allows staff to form close relationships with the residents. It also allows staff to provide more resident-centered care and enables them to follow the individual routines of their residents thus enhancing residents quality of life.
Used quality improvement strategies to operationalize, measure, and spread effective change
The theory of relational coordination suggests that the effectiveness of care and service coordination is determined by the quality of communication among staff - Which depends on the quality of their underlying relationships and…the quality of the relationships reinforce the quality of the communication.
This theory is highly applicable where I work. Where the tasks we perform are closely interrelated with the tasks others are performing…where we have uncertainty and unpredictability require staff to be aware of others and flexible to make changes on the go…and where we have time pressures hanging over all of us.
The bottom line is, if my people are getting along, they give better individualized care. And I need to do the right things so that they get along.
Interview only on Tuesdays at 11
Graffitti, trash, overgrown trees and shrubs
The single most noticeable and important behavior is to establish eye contact, smile, and say “hello” to employees, residents, physicians, visitors as you walk along instead of being absorbed in your own thoughts with a concerned look on your face.
It is important to be a positive force.
The key is to do rounds religiously because visibility must stay a priority. It is not the first priority to eliminate when other demands arise.
Rounds are not a race – slow down. The quality of the walkthrough is more important than the number of walkthroughs.
Invisibility
Most healthcare leaders are not mean, callous individuals. However, many, unknowingly ignore their staff. Their staff are invisible to them.
Boost their self-esteem, notice, have high standards and expectations.
Leadership presence and visibility on the units and in resident rooms modeling excellent customer relations is key. Communication during rounds allows you to catch your staff doing something right and let them know they have been caught.
Every hour, employees are committing acts of compassion. Let them know you saw them and appreciate it.
Nothing is more important to creating a culture of excellence than rounds. Talking to your people and taking action based on what you hear.
Rounding for outcomes –
How is the family
What's working well today
Are there any individuals doing great work today – who?
Is there anything we can do better
Do you have the tools and equipment to do your job
Notice – how far are people walking to fax something
Who answers the phone after 5 PM and on weekends
How far do staff walk for linen
What kind of chairs are they sitting on
Know me, care about me, focus me
Leadership presence and visibility on the units and in resident rooms modeling excellent customer relations is key. Communication during rounds allows you to catch your staff doing something right and let them know they have been caught.
Every hour, employees are committing acts of compassion. Let them know you saw them and appreciate it.
Nothing is more important to creating a culture of excellence than rounds. Talking to your people and taking action based on what you hear.
Rounding for outcomes –
How is the family
What's working well today
Are there any individuals doing great work today – who?
Is there anything we can do better
Do you have the tools and equipment to do your job
Notice – how far are people walking to fax something
Who answers the phone after 5 PM and on weekends
How far do staff walk for linen
What kind of chairs are they sitting on
Leadership presence and visibility on the units and in resident rooms modeling excellent customer relations is key. Communication during rounds allows you to catch your staff doing something right and let them know they have been caught.
Every hour, employees are committing acts of compassion. Let them know you saw them and appreciate it.
Nothing is more important to creating a culture of excellence than rounds. Talking to your people and taking action based on what you hear.
Rounding for outcomes –
How is the family
What's working well today
Are there any individuals doing great work today – who?
Is there anything we can do better
Do you have the tools and equipment to do your job
Notice – how far are people walking to fax something
Who answers the phone after 5 PM and on weekends
How far do staff walk for linen
What kind of chairs are they sitting on
What do I need to focus on, to do, in order to engage the hearts and minds of the staff in Oakland to deliver safe, individualized care.
To engage the staff…
I have to say and demonstrate how much I care about them as people,
I have to ask the right questions…listen to their concerns and act accordingly,
and I have to proactively minimize their stress at work.
The single most noticeable and important behavior is to establish eye contact, smile, and say “hello” to employees, residents, physicians, visitors as you walk along instead of being absorbed in your own thoughts with a concerned look on your face.
It is important to be a positive force.
The key is to do rounds religiously because visibility must stay a priority. It is not the first priority to eliminate when other demands arise.
Rounds are not a race – slow down. The quality of the walkthrough is more important than the number of walkthroughs.
Invisibility
Most healthcare leaders are not mean, callous individuals. However, many, unknowingly ignore their staff. Their staff are invisible to them.
Boost their self-esteem, notice, have high standards and expectations.
The single most noticeable and important behavior is to establish eye contact, smile, and say “hello” to employees, residents, physicians, visitors as you walk along instead of being absorbed in your own thoughts with a concerned look on your face.
It is important to be a positive force.
The key is to do rounds religiously because visibility must stay a priority. It is not the first priority to eliminate when other demands arise.
Rounds are not a race – slow down. The quality of the walkthrough is more important than the number of walkthroughs.
Invisibility
Most healthcare leaders are not mean, callous individuals. However, many, unknowingly ignore their staff. Their staff are invisible to them.
Boost their self-esteem, notice, have high standards and expectations.
Here is a graph with outcomes data – as you see, this facility achieved huge improvement with pressure ulcer incidence. You can see how looking at trended data, presented graphically like this, can be very effective in telling the story of your success.
Picture a huge heavy flywheel – a massive metal disk mounted horizontally on an axle, about 30 feet in diameter, 2 feet thick and weighing about 5,00 pounds. Now imagine your task is to get the flywheel rotating on the axle as fast and long as you can.
Pushing with great effort, you get the flywheel to inch forward. You keep pushing and, after 2 to 3 hours of consistent effort, you get the flywheel to complete one single turn.
You keep pushing, and the flywheel begins to move a bit faster. You complete a second turn. You keep pushing in a consistent direction, 3 turns…4…5…6..it builds momentum…7…8 turns…it builds momentum…20…25…30.
The, at some point, breakthrough! The momentum kicks in your favor, hurling the flywheel forward, turn after turn…whoosh! Each turn of the flywheel builds upon the work done earlier, compounding your investment of effort.
Now, if someone came along and asked, “what was the one big push that caused this thing to go so fast?”
You wouldn't be able to answer. It was all of the pushes added together in an over accumulation of effort applied in a consistent direction.
G to G transformations never happened in one fell swoop. G to G comes about as a cumulative process – step by step, action by action, decision by decision, turn by turn of the flywheel. All of which added together leads to sustained great results.
In the case of stabilizing a workforce, we need to recognize that to do so requires hundreds of small, coordinated/calculated steps.
Cards are a powerful way to reinforce positive behavior
Send the cards to their homes. This sends a powerful message to their families that their place of work is proud of them. Their families knowledge reinforces the positive feeling that comes from praise.
Send b day cards, anniversary cards, congratulations and condolences. Get to know your staff as people and you will learn what's going on in their lives which is significant. Cards say, “I care about you.”
At Department head meetings, pass out blank cards and have them write them during the meeting. Then mail them and 10 –12 will go out that day.
Pass out blank cards at family council meetings.
Action – write a card now. And, we’ll get you started by giving you a box.
At this point during our workshops we stopped, handed out thank you cards, and had the participants take the time to write a thank you card to a C.N.A. We encouraged them to send the card to the staff members home as this is more powerful than handing them the card at work.
Also, internal contests, employee of the month, rookie of the month.
Here we are twenty six years later, and the largest data base of resident and family satisfaction in the nation essentially says the same thing – it’s all about the people who work there. Do they care? Do they know what they are doing? Do they offer choice? Do they listen? Do they love?
Getting the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus and the right people in the right seats – these are all crucial steps in the early stages of buildup leading to breakthrough.
G to G leaders understood three simple truths –
If you begin with who rather than what you can more easily adapt to a changing world. If people are on the bus because of who else is on the bus then it is much easier to change direction if you need to.
If you have the right people on the bus, the problems of how to motivate and manage people largely goes away. The right people do not need to be fired up or tightly managed; they will be self motivated by the inner drive to produce the best results and to be part of creating something great.
Third – if you have the wrong people on the bus, it does not matter whether you discover the right direction, you still will not have a great organization. Great organizations do not become great without great people.
First who – is a very simple idea to grasp, and a very difficult idea to do – and most do not do it very well in LTC. It is easy to talk about paying attention to people decisions, but how many LTC executives have the knowledge or discipline.
They key point of this principle is not simply about assembling the right team, that is nothing new. It is the the sheer rigor needed in people decisions in order to take a LTC facility and move it from good to great.
Personal characteristics are more important than experience or skills. SNFs routinely violate the very basics of HR practices and then wonder why they are in staffing dilemmas. Some of my best hiring decisions came from individuals with no experience in LTC.
SNFs must do a much better job of hiring right.
After selection and hiring occurs, fac. Leaders must understand that they are still recruiting the new hire. New staff are still deciding.
What to do with the data?
Follow the path in G to G
Interview only on Tuesdays at 11
Graffitti, trash, overgrown trees and shrubs
Picture a huge heavy flywheel – a massive metal disk mounted horizontally on an axle, about 30 feet in diameter, 2 feet thick and weighing about 5,00 pounds. Now imagine your task is to get the flywheel rotating on the axle as fast and long as you can.
Pushing with great effort, you get the flywheel to inch forward. You keep pushing and, after 2 to 3 hours of consistent effort, you get the flywheel to complete one single turn.
You keep pushing, and the flywheel begins to move a bit faster. You complete a second turn. You keep pushing in a consistent direction, 3 turns…4…5…6..it builds momentum…7…8 turns…it builds momentum…20…25…30.
The, at some point, breakthrough! The momentum kicks in your favor, hurling the flywheel forward, turn after turn…whoosh! Each turn of the flywheel builds upon the work done earlier, compounding your investment of effort.
Now, if someone came along and asked, “what was the one big push that caused this thing to go so fast?”
You wouldn't be able to answer. It was all of the pushes added together in an over accumulation of effort applied in a consistent direction.
G to G transformations never happened in one fell swoop. G to G comes about as a cumulative process – step by step, action by action, decision by decision, turn by turn of the flywheel. All of which added together leads to sustained great results.
In the case of stabilizing a workforce, we need to recognize that to do so requires hundreds of small, coordinated/calculated steps.
What to do with the data?
Follow the path in G to G