Stephen Harden
The Two Biggest Barriers to Patient Safety Today
Find out what the experts know and learn three steps you can take to fix one of them. The two biggest barriers to hospitals ensuring...
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Stephen Harden
- Sep 23, 2020
- 4 min
7 Simple Steps to Reduce Hospital Readmissions
...and provide better care to your patients while saving your hospital a lot of money. In the past Medicare has rewarded hospitals with...
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Stephen Harden
- Sep 16, 2020
- 4 min
Why you must insist that your patients use checklists too, and five ways you can get them to do it
I had surgery, on a Thursday morning, to repair a deviated septum and other sinus issues. Part of the procedure is to insert plastic...
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Stephen Harden
- Sep 10, 2020
- 2 min
Five Magic Phrases to Get More Executive Support for Your Patient Safety Program
Let’s deal with it. If your executive team doesn’t give you and your patient safety program the time, attention, resources, and money you...
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Stephen Harden
- Sep 2, 2020
- 3 min
The Secret Reason You Must Turn Off Your Cell Phone on an Airliner...
... and how it will help you realize an eightfold increase in patient safety. We used to hear the flight attendant command passengers to...
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Stephen Harden
- Aug 26, 2020
- 4 min
Five Critical Questions Everyone Asks About Debriefing
Answers to your questions about creating a culture of high performance. I’ve been helping clinicians and administrators all over the...
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Stephen Harden
- Aug 19, 2020
- 3 min
Why Your Staff Doesn’t Think You Are Serious About the Need to SpeakUp for Safety
Years ago, when the commercial airline industry was first beginning to implement Crew Resource Management (CRM or “TeamSTEPPS” as it is...
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Stephen Harden
- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
Five Magic Phrases to Get More Executive Support for Your PatientSafety Program
Let’s deal with it. If your executive team doesn’t give you and your patient safety program the time, attention, resources, and money you...
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Stephen Harden
- Aug 5, 2020
- 4 min
Changing Culture with the Power of Rewards
Brushing our teeth can teach organizations about changing a culture. Did you brush your teeth this morning? Did you use Pepsodent?...
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Stephen Harden
- Jul 29, 2020
- 3 min
Over 50% of Your Staff Will Not Speak Up for Patient Safety: Six ThingsYou Must Do To Fix This
To help improve their patient safety and create alignment with the National Patient Safety Goals, I conducted a site assessment for a...
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Stephen Harden
- Jul 22, 2020
- 4 min
Why Most Training Doesn't Help Quality Improvement for Healthcare
Last week in my blog about quality improvement entitled, “Make Sounds Come Out of Their Mouths” I made what I thought was a very simple...
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Stephen Harden
- Jul 15, 2020
- 2 min
Research Reveals a Shockingly Simple Tool to get Staff to Speak Up
Recent research has revealed a simple, but totally effective tool for getting your staff to speak up every single time they perceive a...
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Stephen Harden
- Jul 1, 2020
- 3 min
Make Sounds Come Out of Their Mouths
Improve your skills to get people to do what you need them to do. I meet with leaders from more than 30 health care organizations a year....
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Stephen Harden
- Jun 24, 2020
- 3 min
Why the Universal Protocol Hasn’t Eradicated Patient Harm
...And the Three Things You Must Do About According to a recent report in the Archives of Surgery, patients undergoing surgery still risk...
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Stephen Harden
- Jun 10, 2020
- 2 min
Three Sure-Fire Steps for a Successful Start to Your Change Initiative
Skip these important steps and your culture change journey becomes a three-legged race you can’t win. (Read to the end for help if you...
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Stephen Harden
- Jun 3, 2020
- 2 min
Change is Possible
Sometimes, the first thing we really need to know is that culture change is possible... What if someone sent you a great story about an...
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Stephen Harden
- May 27, 2020
- 2 min
A Just Response
by: Steve Montague Over the past few months, I’ve faced a new challenge as I work to apply aviation techniques and tools in health care....
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Stephen Harden
- May 20, 2020
- 3 min
7 Tips for Managing Financial Health During the Pandemic
From increased expenses to significant revenue loss, the COVID-19 pandemic is putting substantial financial pressure on hospitals and...
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Stephen Harden
- May 13, 2020
- 3 min
7 Ways to Improve Your Corona Virus Emergency Response
Due to the "Virus Crisis," President Trump has declared a national emergency and asked all hospitals to implement their emergency plans....
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Stephen Harden
- Apr 29, 2020
- 4 min
Don't Squander Your Most Important Resources in a Crisis
In this pandemic crisis leaders are not only at war with the COVID-19 virus, they are also at war with the debilitating effects of...
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