I recently read two posts by a hospital administrator and a physician that are each relevant to our course. I thought about how the posts from these two sources relate to each other in a meaningful way.
http://www.gradydoctor.com/2010/09/how-to-make-your-life-miserable-in.html
http://runningahospital.blogspot.com/2010/09/nh-leads-way-in-new-england.html
It seems to me that the comment by a former patient to Paul Levy's blog (as a hospital CEO) serves to extend the importance of "Grady Doctor's" observations about how physicians should interact with nurses. The way to "eliminate harm" in hospitals is largely to reduce the number of errors made by nurses. When physicians and nurses have good working relationships and treat each other with respect three good things are likely to be the results. First, physicians are likely to have better days because they are not in a continual "war of attitudes" with nurses. Second, nurses are likely to have better days because they have civil working relationships with those who have the power to "give orders." Third, patients are more likely to be treated well both by physicians and nurses and not become victims of poor working relationships between physicians and nurses. This is good. This is the way forward. Please comment to this post on this page, below.
The explanation of your blogging assignment one is available here. Please post by Sunday evening to your class blog and then comment on the posts of all other students by the following Tuesday evening.
http://www.robertcat.net/fall2010/padm5322/blogassignmentone.htm
Ms. Stephanie Cooper of QEP has agreed to participate in our working this way together. Thank you, Stephanie!
You have made an excellent point. Doctors and nurses need to set aside their egos long enough to remember that their mission is the same - caring for the patients! If everyone works together as a team, not only will the patient get the best care possible, it will build comradery between all levels of hospital staff...job well done by all!!
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ReplyDeleteThank you, Stephanie. It amazes me that that post took over an hour to write this Wednesday morning. I had to think for a while to see the connection between the two posts from the two sources. I guess this is what our colleague Tom Clancy refers to as, "writing actualized." And in a few weeks when we have a body of posts in our own little community to draw upon, the challenge will be to find threads across time. Does that make sense?
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