Lead, Drive, and Thrive in the System / by Jennifer S. Mensik Kennedy.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 23, 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. Introduction to Health Care Systems -- What Is Leading, Driving, and Thriving in the System? -- Definition of Nursing -- A First Look at Systems -- Belonging to a System -- Change: It Starts with You -- Sister Facilities -- Holding Companies and Operating Companies -- Competition versus Collaboration -- Health Care as Cottage Industry -- Common Goal: The Patients -- Key Points

Chapter 2. Our Evolving Health Care System -- Health Care Reform: The Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act -- Goals of a Health Care System -- The Continuum of Care -- Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) -- Influential Organizations and Agencies in the US Health Care System -- The World Health Organization (WHO) -- National Academy of Medicine (NAM), Formerly the Institute of Medicine (IOM) -- Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) -- Congressional Budget Office -- MedPAC and MACPAC -- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) -- National Quality Forum (NQF)

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) -- National Quality Strategy (NQS) -- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) -- Measurement Organizations -- Regulatory Agencies -- Federal Regulations and DHHS Divisions -- Accreditation Bodies -- State Regulations and Regulating Agencies -- State Regulation of Professionals -- Key Points -- Chapter 3. What Is Systems Thinking? -- Systems Thinking -- A Little Organizational Theory -- Taylorism, Time and Motion, and Nursing Care -- The Hawthorne Studies -- Background on Bureaucracy -- Radical Management -- New Goal: From Inside-Out to Outside-In

New Role for Managers: From Controller to Enabler -- New Coordination: From Bureaucracy to Dynamic Linkage -- From Value to Values -- Communications: From Command to Conversation -- Modern Theories -- General Systems Theory -- Chaos Theory -- Complexity Theory -- Complex Adaptive and Emergent Systems -- Multilevel Thinking -- Macro and Micro Perspectives -- The Macro Perspective -- The Micro Perspective -- Top-down and Bottom-up in Systems Thinking -- Top-down Processes -- Bottom-up Processes -- Emergence -- Compilation -- Composition -- Ecological Fallacy -- Key Points

Chapter 4. Innovation and Standardization -- Innovation in Health Care Organizations -- The Difference between Knowledge Generation and Translation -- Setting the Stage for Innovation -- Diffusion of Innovation -- Design Thinking and Hackathons -- Hackathons -- Standardization in Health Care Organizations -- Creativity without Stifling -- Key Points -- Chapter 5. Facilitating and Managing Change -- Change and Organizations: Processes and Theories -- Change Agents -- Change Theories -- GE Change Acceleration Process (CAP) -- A Personal Note about Change Theories -- Shared Leadership and Bureaucracy.

Nurses Are Natural Leaders. Whether you are new to a health care system or working to make change in your current system, Lead, Drive & Thrive in the System, 2nd Edition is your how-to guide to success. You can be a leader, and this book will show you how!

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