IHQSE - Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety & Efficiency

10 down, 4 to go on our development roadmap! The back wall catalogues the 'miles' we've traveled over the first two days of the fall cohort of the Foundations in Healthcare Leadership. Mile 1 Defining Leadership Mile 2 Leading Change Mile 3 Emotional Intelligence Mile 4 Providing Feedback for Improvement Mile 5 Transitioning from Clinician to Executive Mile 6 Hospital Finance Mile 7 Negotiating for Resources Mile 8 Managing Conflict Mile 9 Overcoming Resistance Mile 10 Running Effective Meetings Today: The final four 'miles': Building Influence, Diversity as a Leadership Skill, Leadership for Well-being, Building Effective Teams. Tomorrow: Each participant will develop a detailed, tailored development roadmap to guide the next year of their 1-on-1 executive coaching! #leadership #healthcare #change #healthcareleadership

And were off! The IHQSE Foundations in Healthcare Leadership Fall Cohort started with a bang this morning bringing a group of individuals from across the country together to begin their one-year leadership journey. Over the next 4 days we'll cover 14 core leadership competencies with the last half day reserved for creation of their customized development roadmap of drills they'll do over the next year to develop the skills taught in class. This is supported by a year of monthly 1-on-1 coaching. Why? Because leadership cannot be taught in 4 days! #healthcare #leadership #healthcareleadership

When does QI become research, requiring IRB approval? QI is the art of implementation while research is the science of discovery. Sounds simple, but this is trickier than many think. Using the guiding questions below can help steer you in the right direction. When in doubt, go to your IRB for guidance. Intent: 1) To improve institution-specific care in accordance with best practices = QI 2) To create new, generalizable knowledge = Research Design: 1) Evaluate patients before and after an intervention = QI 2) Randomization or sampling of patients = Research Population: 1) All patients on a unit, clinic, or program = QI 2) Subset of patients to draw conclusions for the larger population = Research Effect: 1) Impacts all patients equally = QI 2) Impacts some patients differently than others = Research Dissemination: 1) Point is to share strategies, methods, barriers, learnings = QI 2) Point is to add generalizable knowledge = Research Feel free to reach out to IHQSE@cuanschutz.edu with questions. #qualityimprovement #patientsafety #leadership #research

Way to go, Meredith Beaton!! 👏 👏 A BIG congratulations to Foundation in Healthcare Leadership graduate, Meredith Beaton, NP, on her recent appointment as University of Colorado Department of Medicine Associate Vice Chair for APP Development. In the associate vice chair for APP development role, Meredith will work with department and division leaders to develop, implement, and support programs that promote APP faculty development with the goal of successful development, recognition, and retention of excellent APP faculty in the department. 

“It’s very unique to have an APP in this role...” Great article about Whitney Vuchetich, DNP, a graduate of Foundations in Healthcare Leadership, and her unique leadership journey. As Medical Director at the UCHealth Internal Medicine/Lowry clinic, she has excelled as a provider and a leader by shirking traditional hierarchies, aiming high, and letting her abilities speak for themselves. https://lnkd.in/gBbEhpc3

WOW 🤩 Huge congratulations to a couple of IHQSE Alumni! The University of Colorado School of Medicine hosted an awards ceremony to honor a number of healthcare educators for their teaching in CU SOM's innovative longitudinal integrated clerkship programs. Winners included Allison Costello, MD, MBA, who was awarded the Community Health Advocacy LIC Teacher of the Year Award, and Lauren Harrington, MD, who was awarded a Bardsley for demonstrating exceptional humanism and commitment to compassion, collaboration, personal growth, and responsibility to the patient. Read more about all of the award winners in the comment.

Congrats to the graduates of our Fall Patient Safety Academy! Over 2 days PSA gives clinical teams the skills to build effective, just culture based case review programs followed by 6 months implementation coaching to ensure its successful launch. PSA is just one of nine training programs IHQSE offers. For more information check us out at IHQSE.org. #patientsafety #qualityimprovement

Do you hate writing? Truth is, most of us do. As a result, most successful QI projects don't spread externally resulting in continued inefficient, unsafe, and sub-optimal processes impacting our patients nationally. The IHQSE QI Writing Group offers a structured, virtual writing process with expert coaches to help authors successfully publish their QI work. Learn more at IHQSE.org #qualityimprovement #patientsafety #spread