WEEK ONE DISCUSSION #2. RESPOND TO EACH STUDENTS POST WITH 1-2 PARAGRAPHS. APA FORMAT AND REFERENCES

Respond to at least two of your classmates' postings with EACH discussion question.

Week 1 Discussion 

Mitchell Gumataotao

As future health care leaders it is important for us to learn skills that are enable us to lead. Every leader has their own way of leading with utilizing concepts that can be good or sometimes bad.  The video Believing and Belonging by Peter Pronovost does a great job explaining multiple concepts that can be utilized by health care leader. In his video he discusses the impacts of medical errors that are plaguing our hospitals and clinics. Mr. Provonost goes into detail about the concepts he implemented in reducing medical errors and changing the culture among providers. Three concepts that I thought were the most significant were checklists, culture creation and community groups.

The first concept that I thought was the most significant was the implementation of checklists. This minor change decreased the rate of infection by nearly 80% (Provonost, 2016). In all healthcare settings check lists are highly utilized. This is a simple protocol this implemented by many hospitals to ensure that mistakes are decreased. I chose this concept because I have seen it be highly effective. When individuals have a checklist, it keeps individuals on tasks and ensures that what they are performing is correct. As leader implementing checklists can hold people accountable and sets a precedence on how certain procedures are performed.

In the video, Mr. Pronovost alluded to the fact the culture within hospitals were not in the best interest of the patients. I believe that changing the culture as a healthcare leader is important and has a direct effect on patient safety. If everyone has the believe that the patient is their number one priority, they will take more steps to ensure the patient is taking care of appropriately.

The last concept was the introduction of community groups. The implementation of community groups gives the opportunity for healthcare providers to improve the care of patients and create partnerships within organizations (Ferrer, 2016). In the society we live in today, technology allows for providers to be available to communicate across the world. As a leader communication on all levels is important, it may not be on the grand scale of the world but creating an avenue for members to communicate within your job site is important.  This simply could be a group chat or a forum for members to collaborate together on daily operations or issues that come up during the work week.  

References

Peter Pronovost . (2016).  Believing and Belonging .  TEDx Talks . Retrieved October 26, 2022, from  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=963Mg7TYMH0 .

Ferrer, R. L. (2016, December).  Clinical-community linkages. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality . Retrieved October 28, 2022, from  https://www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/community/index.html

Week One: Discussion Question 2

 

Chilee Osuji

      The most important concepts presented in Dr. Pronovost's TED talk are creating connected communities, structure, systematic approach, and broad perspective to support and improve healthcare outcomes. I chose these essential concepts because our public health challenges are complex. To solve all these healthcare challenges, we must work together to build a solid structure that will help us tackle our challenges. The problem is not what we know but how we implement it. Public health is the science designed to create community, state, and nationwide conditions that promote health, prevent diseases and encourage healthy behaviors across the globe. An equitable approach to building healthy communities also requires wide-ranging processes and collaboration across organizations and sectors, including the private sector, which is critical to creating healthy, safe, opportunity-rich communities; in short, the kinds of places we all want to live. The experience and voices of community members, particularly people of color, must be an integral part of discussions, strategic thinking, and action around sustainable change.

Coordination and collaboration in the administrative process will help unify the team and make healthcare professionals work together by believing and trusting each other. In addition, coordinating among healthcare organizations can help improve care centers around patients' needs to minimize time, and resource waste, diagnostic errors, medical errors, and communication errors.

      Finding a sustainable solution to all these enormous problems will have a positive public health outcome locally and globally. It will help create a culture of belonging to a connected community. Public healthcare challenges are our collective responsibility shared across both local and global levels of our society. Healthcare policymakers must understand this culture, and everyone in the healthcare profession must also understand this culture, its beliefs, and the environment in which we work.

      As a future health leader, I will focus on viewing healthcare challenges from a broad perspective; overall structure, practices, and inter-relationships will help public health professionals easily identify the system's problem and its solutions. This proposed approach is vital to public health's goal.

As a future public health professional, I have a significant role to play in the management of present and future threats to the health system. I will apply these concepts in solving healthcare problems by ensuring all healthcare professionals in my organization understand how important these concepts are in our healthcare system and that our priority is to improve healthcare outcomes. I will incorporate training and frameworks to help my team act in a way that reflects our world's complex and interconnected characteristics. In addition, healthcare providers working together and reviewing their performance data will help improve outcomes and create a connected community, trust, and love for saving lives.

      Finally, failure to understand our priority in healthcare systems doesn't only leave individuals, families, and communities at risk, it also leaves the world vulnerable to outbreaks like the pandemic and other health emergencies. The concept of connection also helps us understand our complex public health systemically and helps policymakers avoid unintended consequences or unintentionally creating new problems while trying to solve existing ones.

Reference

Believing and Belonging | Peter Pronovost | TEDxBeaconStreetSalon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=963Mg7TYMH0

Ransom, et. al. (2014). Healthcare Quality Book: Vision, Strategy, and Tools. (3rd Ed.) Chicago: Health Administration Press.

Nance, J.  (2008). Why Hospitals Should Fly Bozeman, MT: Second River Healthcare Press.

World Health Organization (2020, August 29). A system thinking approach for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.  https://www.emro.who.int/emhj-volume-26-2020/volume-26-issue-8/a-systems-thinking-approach-for-responding-to-the-covid-19-pandemic.html