Exploring The Lean Training Strategies That Healthcare Managers May Adopt

Report findings and conclusions from the research project (remember to include your action plan given to you at the beginning of the course) (P6)

The first step of the research process would be to identify the focus area. After identifying this focus area, clear goals and/or objectives that researchers aim to meet would be developed. Development of research groups, leaders, recruitment of participants, and decisions about what and when methodologies should be utilized to collect and review data; follow the development of objectives, and format the action plan. Implementation of those methodologies and collection of data are performed during the action plan phase of the research project. The evaluation phase may involve researching data collected during the action plan phase, noting positivity’s, errors, and/or

Training Topic: The training topic purposed is, leader standard work, which is a lean tool that helps leaders to identify what is value-add and non-value-add in their work. Once a leader can identify what is non-value add, they begin to reduce the time spent completing these tasks and spend more time coaching their employees to problem solve and improve patient care. In lean value is determined by what the customer is willing to pay for. Consequently, in healthcare, the customer is the patient. Users of this tool do not have to be formal leaders within the organization, but the intent is to enable individuals to manage their daily, weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly activities strategically and to eliminate the the non-value add activities.

Identify the topic, and describe specific research related to the topic (describe the study, sample, findings, important points from the discussion in the research – describe any variables that may influence the findings of the research). Address any key issues such as political, social, legal, and/or ethical implications the

This begins with educating staff on Lean principles and methodology. Once staff understands Lean thinking, principles and methods, the managers and leaders can become facilitators, teachers, and mentors while allowing professionals, non-professionals, and health care teams to make improvements in safety and quality (Aij & Lohman, 2016). Implementing Lean in Optum’s transplant services department resulted in the elimination of aspects of the telephonic outreach process that didn’t contribute to high quality health care.

Why learn from them? – New Hanover has implemented a full lean operating / management system and credit the approach with driving improvements in major health system outcomes. This is an example of an organization that used lean to drive outcomes successfully.

Your discussion is an excellent post based on Lean leadership, and yes, not all organization is open to the possibility to change. However, in the changing world of the health care market industries to embrace this new wave or left behind. In the upcoming years, the country will see an unusual amount of hospital doors closing or reconstructed to serve as rehabilitation or outpatient centers which happen to a local hospital in the Laurel, Maryland. Causing the hospital in Columbia in tripling their emergency room visits, and causing a surge in admission.

?As global healthcare expenditure soars, and as systems are increasingly required to deliver better care to more people using less resource, the challenge to explore the promises of lean thinking is compelling? (Young and McClean, 2009 p309). In the UK the government has set deadlines for Accident and Emergency (A&E) patients to be dealt with (Boseley, 2015). The hospitals are facing challenges for this deadline. In this context the implementation of lean can enable hospitals improve their efficiencies whiles at the same time reducing cost. This dissertation looks into the opportunities and challenges of implementing lean within the healthcare sector.

Pearson’s Private Hospital’s management have realised that they need to change some of the policies and procedures to ensure more of a connection between nurses and patients. Therefore Pearson’s Private have hired an Organisational Development Practitioner to help implement the change within the organisation. They help implement business strategy’s, organisations design, quality management and both information and business technology strategy’s (Brown, 2015). Change can successfully be implemented into any organisation if the correct procuration and steps are taken when doing so. This is why hiring an Organisational Development Practitioner is the most effect way to implement change. They implement the correct method and help by motivating

In our book Creswell states that, "attention needs to be directed toward ethical issues prior to conducting the study; beginning a study; during data collection and data analysis; and in reporting, sharing, and storing the data" (p. 92) This applies to all three approaches to research. As an ethical researcher I will pick a research problem that is benefical to the participants, and let them know the purpose of the study that I will be conducting. My research will be a qualitative study that will interview teachers and students to determine the barriers that are preventing fifth grade students in Texas from increasing their yearly scores on the STAAR reading test, and will include a comparison of the questions of the previous year's STAAR reading

In procedure section, researcher should “describe how you are going to execute the study from the moment you meet the study participant” (Johnson & Christensen, 2008, P. 95). Before I conduct my research in an elementary school in south eastern part of America, I will work as a voluntary art teacher in every Thursday afternoon from 2:30 – 3:30 pm for a fourth grade art class in the beginning of the semester. In this process, students and I will get know each other. After one month teaching in fourth grade art class, I will inform my students that I will do an action research in this class. Then I will explain the research topic and research question to students. Then I will give each students a set of consent form: participants consent form and parent consent form. In the following week, I will collect these two consent forms by myself. Then, I will mark down those will participant in research and those will not participant in research. For those who will not participant in research, they will still have class with their classmates in class. But their worksheets and artworks will not be collected for this research. When finishing check the consent forms, I will conduct the lesson by myself in the following weeks.

Human resources are the most valuable assets of any organization, with the machines, materials and even the money; nothing gets done without man-power. In today’s business climate, businesses are faced with stiff internal and external competition. There are various human resource functions that give an organization a competitive edge, but most scholars argue that human resource functions becomes only operational when training has run through them all. This places training and development as an essential function in the survival of any organization. Increasingly, high performance organizations today are recognizing the need to use best training and development practices to enhance their competitive advantage.

Lean methodology is a quality improvement method used in healthcare to decrease wasted time and costs and thus will increase efficiencies and improve outcomes. In 2016 an article, an exploratory analysis for Lean and Six Sigma implementation in hospitals: Together is better? (Lee, McFadden, Gowen 3rd), list some of the tools used in lean that makes it so effective. One tool in Lean methodology being, just-in-time process management. ((Lee, McFadden, Gowen 3rd, 2016, p.3). This tool is crucial in nursing for apparent reasons, nursing care is continuously changing, and nurses must critically think and gear their assessments around changes in the patient that can provide safe and efficient care. By

Putting together an effective employee training program can be a monumental task if not planned properly. There are four steps, repeating to produce a continuously better program that is best for both employer and employee. The process steps include needs assessment, design, implementation, and evaluation. Once it is evaluated, it should then show some weakness that should begin the cycle again with needs assessment and

A training program that is well-designed is proven to achieve maximum results and meet the training needs identified during a training needs analysis. A well-executed training program will increase overall productivity and provide the knowledge, skills, and attitudes the employees need to perform successfully. This paper presents considerations for the design of a two-phase training program for existing employees – a two (2) day program, which covers the training needs to move the company in the right direction.