Call Don't Fall

With each passing day I am more and more amazed by the CAPS students. They are starting to intermix with each other and step outside of the box when is comes to ideas, thoughts, and proposals. The students studied quality in healthcare and Triple Aim and were given the task to research the top 3 hospitals that a patient would go to if they were going to have a procedure for heart failure. The students were introduced to the massive amounts of data out there and the organizations that post the data. They needed to distill out the most important information as it related to heart failure, chose a few identifying factors and compare and contrast the hospitals. From the top 3 they chose they had to select the hospital they would chose to go to receive care and why. It was interesting to see why they chose the hospitals they did and we discussed that this is most likely the case in the general public. Patients choose their particular hospital for a variety of reasons.

Later in the week we investigated the arena of risk management and some "Never Events" in a hospital. We took a tour of an acute care setting and looked at how they mitigate patient falls from there we toured St. Gertrude's and saw how a long term care setting prevented falls. Afterwards students were given an adverse health event and had to create a policy to implement into an acute care setting. Students met with health care managers related to their adverse health event and had to pitch their policy and see how it compared to the policy that was already in place in St. Francis. As I watched and listened to the dialogues taking place between the managers and the students I was impressed to hear a natural yet professional conversation taking place...AND LEARNING at the same time!