Episodes

  • The Importance of Caring Frameworks and Accurate and Relevant Measurement in a Large Healthcare System

    The Importance of Caring Frameworks and Accurate and Relevant Measurement in a Large Healthcare System
    Mar 14 2022
    The three guests from this video review their measuring and implementing concepts of caring science in a large healthcare system in the United States. All three guests are leaders in nursing who worked on this 11-hospital project together. Dr. Gay Landstrom reviews the system of Trinity Health, Kay Takes reviews how regionally and at the hospital level within Trinity to make caring operational, and Dr. Tricia Thomas talks about the various disciplines that are needed to be involved so caring is applicable and translatable across organizations, cultures, and internationally. Finally, these leaders discuss the importance of caring for self both short term during the pandemic and long term beyond the pandemic.
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    43 mins
  • What is True Predictive Analytics

    What is True Predictive Analytics
    Jan 18 2022
    Predictive analytics are key to improving healthcare outcomes, identifying what things relate to or even predict and outcome of interest such as falls, infections, length of hospital stay, and so on. The term “predictive analytics” is a “hot” trend in healthcare today, but often misunderstood or, unfortunately, just hype. The aim of this episode is to provide listeners tangible ways to evaluate if a service or product is actually using true predictive analytics. In this episode, Dr. John Nelson describes the basics of what are true predictive analytics, what questions should be asked when considering a product or service, and how informaticists and leaders can begin using predictive analytics to improve outcomes.
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    34 mins
  • Creating a Strategy for Success in Healthcare Leadership - Part 2

    Creating a Strategy for Success in Healthcare Leadership - Part 2
    Oct 11 2021
    In this second part on leadership strategy, your host, John Nelson, continues the conversation with Kay Kennedy and Lucy Leclerc from uLeadership. They discuss how having a measure that is specified for the content being taught, which in this case is leadership, creates a greater likelihood that what is being taught can be studied in predictive analytics to study outcomes. The discussion includes the plan to connect relationship centered leadership to outcomes within the organization. Kay and Lucy also share about how a program of caring for self grew out of their leadership program, given it such a dramatic need for both healthcare leaders and staff. How does caring for self relate to outcomes? Dr. Nelson reviews his research in this and relates it to the program presented in this episode.
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    29 mins
  • Creating a Strategy for Success in Healthcare Leadership

    Creating a Strategy for Success in Healthcare Leadership
    Sep 1 2021
    This is part 1 of a 2 episode podcast on Human Centered Leadership. In this session, Kay Kennedy and Lucy Leclerc, from uLeadership, review a framework of leadership that is relationship centered. They review the theory and measurement of this unique leadership training program. Traditional leadership model draw from business models and the leadership program by uLeadership was developed from grounded theory that studied leadership in healthcare, specifically nursing leadership. What they discovered and now measuring was a 4-dimentions construct of leadership that is specified to be used in healthcare. In this first episode, they describe the development of the theory, measures and program.
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    27 mins
  • Why We Wrote Another Healthcare Book

    Why We Wrote Another Healthcare Book
    Aug 25 2021
    In this episode, Dr. John Nelson, along with his co-editors Mary Ann Hozak and Jayne Felgen, discuss why they wrote the 2021 book Using Predictive Analytics to Improve Healthcare Outcomes. They discuss how they leveraged the story told by staff to create context specified measurement models which made the data both relevant and actionable to improve outcomes for staff and patients. These context specified measurement models increased the accuracy of the predictive models to give guidance for action forward to improve relational and clinical outcomes. They review how the 18 chapters in this book has begun the testing of the quadruple aim by studying the employee’s experience and profile in relationship to outcomes.
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    27 mins
  • How Healthcare Professionals Can Better Understand Patient Pain and Improve the Patient Experience - Part 2

    How Healthcare Professionals Can Better Understand Patient Pain and Improve the Patient Experience - Part 2
    Aug 17 2021
    In this second session with Dr. Tara Nichols, John and Tara discuss the physiology and theories of both pain and comfort. What is the best way to decrease pain and increase comfort? How can measures of pain, comfort, and the context of the environment and context help inform what needs to be improved to improve comfort? Dr. Nichols talks about how she measures her theory and practice of comfort to understand what aspects of the organization need to be improved to increase comfort.
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    30 mins
  • How Healthcare Professionals Can Better Understand Patient Pain and Improve the Patient Experience

    How Healthcare Professionals Can Better Understand Patient Pain and Improve the Patient Experience
    Jul 20 2021
    Dr. John Nelson and his guest, Dr. Tara Nichols, discuss the problems with how pain is commonly assessed in diagnosing patients, and the problems that occur as a result. Dr. Nichols provides practical insights in how professionals can better understand the pain and discomfort of patients, and the process of developing the Nichols-Nelson Model of Comfort with Dr. John Nelson.
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    27 mins
  • Advancing the Measurement of Caring with Dr. Zane Wolf and John Nelson

    Advancing the Measurement of Caring with Dr. Zane Wolf and John Nelson
    Jun 29 2021
    In this episode, Dr. John Nelson welcomes his colleague, Dr. Zane Wolf, Dean Emerita and Professor at La Salle University. Dr. Wolf was recently recognized in Stanford’s ranking of worldwide academics as in the top 2% of over 7 million scientists around the world. Her work in caring science includes creating the Caring Behaviors Inventory and serving as the Editor in Chief of the International Journal for Human Caring. Zane and John discuss the importance of measuring frameworks of care, as well as other concerns related to caring, such as staff well-being and patient safety. They reveal the value of qualitative and quantitative data to understand the context of care, and how theory and research and predictive analytics are critical to improving patient experience, nurse engagement, and achieving the quadruple aim. You will enjoy this lively discussion between two passionate colleagues whose lifework has advanced the science of caring.
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    42 mins