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Does your team want to improve service? Or clinical quality? If you don't know where to start, check out the team-tested practices on the LMP website. This short video shows you how.
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Format:
PDF
Size:
8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
Unit-based team co-leads and members
Best used:
Post this tip sheet on a team bulletin board, or use it as a starting point to figure out how to determine the savings and/or cost-avoidance of performance improvement efforts.
Format:
PDF
Size:
8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
Unit-based team members, co-leads, sponsors and consultants in all departments that care for patients
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Share these tips with you team to help plan patient safety improvement projects or review effective patient safety practices.
Format:
PDF (color or black and white)
Size:
8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
Team members, managers
Best used:
Discuss these successful practices for building a safer work environment In meetings and team huddles.
Format:
PDF
Size:
8.5" x 11", 1 page
Intended audience:
Team members, managers
Best used:
In meetings and team huddles, discuss these tips for successful practices to build a safer work environment.
Format:
PDF
Size:
Two pages, 8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
UBT sponsors, consultants and co-leads
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This walkthrough will help your UBT understand a process map and use it identify all the steps in its workflow.
Format:
PDF
Size:
8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
UBT sponsors, consultants and co-leads
Best used:
The tool helps determine which projects to focus energy on first—starting with work that has high impact and is relatively easy to do. Use the four categories to help a team set priorities.
Format:
PDF
Size:
One page
Intended audience:
Unit-based team members and leaders
Best used:
These 14 definitions of key performance improvement terms and concepts can help your team plan and implement a project.
Related tools:
Get 10 Tips for Performance Improvement in Partnership.
Format:
PDF
Size:
One page
Intended audience:
Unit-based team co-leads, sponsors and consultants; performance improvement advisers; union partnership representatives
Best used:
These tips can help you ensure your team utilizes all available performance improvement tools and techniques in partnership.
Related tools:
See a glossary of performance improvement terms
Format:
PDF
Size:
8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
Union co-leads, sponsors and stewards; unit-based team consultants
Best used:
Effective union co-leads share tips for working effectively and engaging team members.
Related stories/tools:
Get team examples and tools to put these tips to use.
Format:
PDF
Size:
8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
UBT co-leads and team members
Best used:
As a starting point to acknowledge resistance to change and to brainstorm ideas on how to make the changes we choose more effective.
