Tag: Nursing

In further celebration of Nurses Week, it's worth discussing this TIME article about the "Killer Burden on Nurses" under the Affordable Care Act. The point...

This week starts the celebration of International Nurses Week, which leads up to Nurses Day on May 12, which is the birthday of the...

In 2009, I wrote about a nurses' union in New Brunswick that supported Lean because they realized this methodology could help reduce waiting times and...

I saw this video last night on Paul Levy's blog and it's important enough that I want to share it here with a few...

Thanks to my friends at the Lean Enterprise Institute for hosting a new article of mine on their Lean Post blog. "The Question All Healthcare...

In some  "Kaizen Kickoff" coaching that I've been doing recently, I've been spending time with managers and other leaders as they interact with...

This week, May 6-13, is National Nurses Week. It's always important, but it's especially good to thank and recognize all of the talented, caring,...

I recently saw this headline in the London Evening Standard: "Nurses struggle to 'get the job done' due to staff shortages and lack of...

I've been to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan before -- in February. It was a very cold, snowy place, to say the least! But, there are many...

Coming this week -- blog posts and tweets (follow me or hashtag  #HCsummit12) from the 2012 Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit on Wednesday and Thursday....

Here are links to some more articles I've read recently that might be of interest on a number of Lean related topics: Twin boys die...

"Kaizen" is a Japanese word that means "change for the better" in the context of ongoing "continuous improvement." The so-called "kaizen event," a weeklong...