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Shadow Coaches Improve the Patient Experience

Posted by Kristin Baird An aspiring athlete can read dozens of books and watch hundreds of videos on great basketball techniques, but chances are good that will have minimal effect. Unless they, 1) play an actual game with others, and 2) get ...

Good Read: Cracking the Culture Code

Review by: Angela Fieler, MPA, CMQ/OE, Consultant If you are looking for a great read with powerful purpose and practical ideas, Daniel Coyle’s new book, “The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups”, should be right up your alley.  Coyle is a ...

5 Tips for Celebrating & Supporting Nurses All Year

Posted by Kristin Baird It’s Nurse’s Week and I am loving all the inspiring and heart-warming articles and ads giving recognition to this most trusted profession. It’s great that once a year we put nurses in the limelight and celebrate their ...

Let’s Get Real About Incentives

Posted by Kristin Baird It’s pretty common for me to get calls from healthcare leaders who are struggling with physician HCAHPS scores. It’s also common for me to learn that there are little or no consequences for physicians who have poor patient satisfaction scores. They ...

Don’t make it easy for hecklers and naysayers

The other day I was talking to a manager who was working hard to improve the patient experience in her department. She had done a wonderful job presenting the “why” and “how” to create a positive patient experience. She was ...

Add the Patient to the Care Team

How are you inviting patient engagement? Patient engagement is a priority for many organizations. It seems that everywhere I look there is another piece of technology being release along with claims that it increases patient engagement. If you ask me, I ...

Giving and Receiving Feedback – Baird’s Top 10 Tips

Written By: Kristin Baird, RN, BSN, MHA  Imagine a workplace where employees, supervisors, managers, senior leaders, physicians and other clinicians all felt comfortable giving and receiving feedback from each other. Think of the opportunities for improvement that could emerge. Think of ...

Good Read: The Starfish and the Spider

Review by: Kristin Baird, RN, BSN, MHA What does culture and patient experience have to do with starfish? More than you might think. In their book, the Starfish and the Spider, Brafman and Beckstrom use these two creatures to compare and ...

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