The Memory Jogger II Healthcare Edition: A Pocket Guide of Tools for Continuous Improvement and Effective Planning

Dramatically improve your productivity, quality, and planning with the 2020 revision of this highly successful pocket guide of basic and advanced quality tools, a problem-solving model, and improvement team guidelines. Learn from the many Healthcare examples from other organizations with problems similar to yours, making it easier for everyone to understand and apply the tools.

Critical tools are explained with detailed graphics and easy-to-understand text and icons to describe what the tools are, why they re used, and how to use them. This pocket guide includes case studies of fortune 100 companies succeeding with these tools. It uses real-life Healthcare examples with problems similar to yours, making them easy to understand and apply.

A Story-boarding case study of the 7-step model

Team guidelines

A tool selector chart and a quick tool finder

Tools include: Activity Network Diagram, Affinity Diagram, Brainstorming, Brainwriting, Cause & Effect/Fishbone, Check Sheets, Control Charts, Data Points, Flowchart, Force Field Analysis, Histograms, Interrelationship Digraph, Nominal Group Technique, Matrix Diagram, Multivoting, Pareto Chart, Prioritization Matrices, Problem Solving Model, Process Capability, Radar Chart, Run Chart, Scatter Diagram, Team Guidelines, Tree Diagram.

An excellent quality tool resource specifically designed to help hospitals, clinics, physician practices and medical teams, with actual hospital/healthcare examples to learn about and implement quality improvement processes.

Improve clinical education, staffing with limited resources and identifying processes to improve diagnosis and treatment of disease. Improve delivery of services from the ED to radiology to laboratories.

Who is this best suited for?

Healthcare Administrators

Chief Medical and Nursing Officers

Emergency Department and Patient Care Directors

Quality and Safety Managers

Benefits

Become a visionary leader

Tips for controlling costs and improving efficiency

Keep it simple by making changes with PDCA Cycles

Gain appreciation for effective team work

Achieve patient safety and patient-focused excellence

GOAL/QPC can also design custom covers for this Memory Jogger to match your company colors and branding and include a message from your company executives about the importance of this topic to the business.

(Memory Joggers are available in two standard sizes. The pocket size is 3.5" x 5.5" and the desktop size, with a larger font, is 5" x 7". This page is for the 3.5" x 5.5" pocket size version. The desktop size can be found by clicking on See all formats and editions at the top of this page and then clicking on the arrow > in front of Spiral-bound, or by searching for the ISBN, 9781576812327)

GOAL/QPC

Since 1995 GOAL/QPC has been a leader in the world of Quality Management. GOAL/QPC's concisely written pocket guides, known as Memory Joggers, enable people at all organizational levels to learn and apply tools, methods and processes that are critically needed to attain world-class organizational excellence. With over 12M copies in circulation, our customers value our Memory Joggers as stand-alone learning resources or for use in a training environment. Made popular with our trademark format of "What is it, What does it do, How do I do it?" , published in a pocket sized spiral binding, users can quickly find and acquire knowledge and insight from the leading edge book content.