Quality for the Rest of Us
Gayle Porter
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S3E12 Hospital Cyberattacks (8 mins)
Did you know that healthcare is the most targeted industry by cybercriminals, and that cyberattacks are attributed to increased mortality? This episode introduces an innovative approach to managing…
S3E11 Safety Culture & Virtue 10: Mentors (7 mins)
What exactly is the value of experience? Will a good mentor help improve safety? How can you measure mentor engagement at the organizational level? Today's episode explores the role of mentorship in…
S3E10 Safety Culture & Virtue 9: Managers (7 mins)
How does the administrative wing respond to scrutiny? We are wired to have a fight or flight response, but surely there is a better way for managers to handle pressure? Today's podcast looks at…
S3E9 Safety Culture & Virtue 8: Retirement (8 mins)
How does your organization celebrate retirement? It's not a typical interview question, but perhaps it should be: How we treat the people who have given years of their lives to the organization…
S3E8 Safety Culture & Virtue 7: Charity (7 mins)
How can we care for strangers if we do not care for each other? This episode looks at some of the best and worst charitable policies in the workplace and examines how safety culture can be elevated…
S3E7 Safety Culture & Virtue 6: Lunch Breaks (7 mins)
How much do you trust your coworkers to watch your patients during lunch?This question is an often overlooked key indicator of safety culture. Nurses are possessive of "their" patients and this…
S3E6 Safety Culture & Virtue 5: Tidying Up (8 mins)
Do you ever hear coworkers say, "Someone should fix that"? Have you ever wished Marie Kondo would come to your healthcare facility and tidy up? This episode looks at the physical environment as a…
S3E5 Safety Culture & Virtue 4: Violence (9 mins)
What is the intersection between safety and security? This episode shares some of my adventures at the bedside and explores opportunities to strengthen safety culture with best practices in…
S3E4 Safety Culture & Virtue 3: Families (9 mins)
Everyone wants to believe that we treat our patients like family. But is it possible to prove it? Today's episode provides a quick auditing method to identify whether you have a family-friendly…
S3E3 Safety Culture & Virtue 2: End of Life Care (7 mins)
Efficient throughput and end of life care work at opposite ends of the spectrum. How does your end of life care reflect your safety culture? Today's episode explores ways to track the quality of end…
S3E2 Safety Culture & Virtue 1: Voluntary Reporting (8 mins)
How should we respond to voluntary reporting? What can we do when our scientific approach to the study of errors becomes as dehumanizing as the culture that caused the error? This episode discusses…
S3E1 Top 10 Signs of Safety Culture and Virtue (10 mins)
Have you ever questioned the credibility of your safety culture survey? So many safety culture assessments describe vague things to avoid, but how can you tell if you have it? This season, we're…
S2E18 Holiday Special 2024: No Place Like Home (23 mins)
As the holidays approach, I'm revisiting the subject of what matters most to patients. This episode discusses the discharge process, length of stay, and outcome metrics that can serve as a compass…
S2E17 Gemba: The Real Place (17 mins)
Did you hear about the redesign of the nurse manager role at Advocate Health? This episode discusses the six insights gleaned from three simple questions that just might save the nurse manager…
S2E16 Safety Communication: You Get One Call (15 mins)
Important notices are common in healthcare, but opportunities for feedback can be hard to find. Yet, communication about problems is essential to a robust patient safety program. This episode looks…
S2E15 What Big Pharma Gets Right (13 mins)
Big Pharma spends billions of dollars on advertising that teaches the public how to say the names of their products. While millions of people live with hypertension, many of them cannot remember the…
S2E14 Resurrection Errors (12 mins)
Have you ever noticed how admission orders can be corrected, but a faulty discharge is nearly impossible to correct? Today's episode explores fake deaths, inaccurate discharges, and how to begin…
S2E13 The Perfect Heist in Patient Safety (15 mins)
What can a con-man teach us about patient safety? Sometimes normal human reactions are just what is needed to breach protocol and result in harm. Today's episode explores the relationship between the…
S2E12 My Experience in the Online Texas Epidemic Public Health Institute (15 mins)
Infectious disease fascinates me. When the State of Texas offers a free certification program in pandemic preparedness, including courses in epidemiology and infectious disease, I'm eager to sign up.…
S2E11 Do We Need Triage in Primary Care? (14 mins)
Have you noticed how busy the clinic waiting rooms are becoming? As the largest living generation retires from providing care and seeks to receive it, our primary care models are experiencing new…
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