Lean in Nursing?
January 21, 2009 by jscott
Ensuring value added care delivery processes is critical in today’s tough economic climate. While many organizations have made changes to nursing roles, staffing and work environments, these changes are complex and challenging to implement. Recently in healthcare management engineering approaches such as Lean and Six Sigma have been found to be very effective in introducing process changes in healthcare. I believe that these approaches are successful not just because of their powerful tools and methodology, but because they heavily involve front line staff in redesign efforts. There is a well known saying that people do not turn their back on what they create. So let’s harness the power of nurses to redesign care delivery – reducing waste and enhancing quality and value!
