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The Science of Caring

Written by: Dr. John Nelson
  • Summary

  • Welcome! Dr. John Nelson reveals how science, mathematics, data, and analytics can be used to tell meaningful stories and the steps you can take in your organization to improve your work environment and the outcomes of your patients. This podcast is for clinicians, operations, executives, and technologists seeking to advance their career and make a difference in healthcare. Dr. Nelson's experience includes work in 46 countries and with over 400 organizations. He is recognized as an expert and leader in the caring sciences, is the President and Founder of Healthcare Environment, and is passionate about improving healthcare for all.
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Episodes
  • The Importance of Caring Frameworks and Accurate and Relevant Measurement in a Large Healthcare System
    Mar 14 2022
    The three guests from this video review their measuring and implementing concepts of caring science in a large healthcare system in the United States. All three guests are leaders in nursing who worked on this 11-hospital project together. Dr. Gay Landstrom reviews the system of Trinity Health, Kay Takes reviews how regionally and at the hospital level within Trinity to make caring operational, and Dr. Tricia Thomas talks about the various disciplines that are needed to be involved so caring is applicable and translatable across organizations, cultures, and internationally. Finally, these leaders discuss the importance of caring for self both short term during the pandemic and long term beyond the pandemic.
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    43 mins
  • What is True Predictive Analytics
    Jan 18 2022
    Predictive analytics are key to improving healthcare outcomes, identifying what things relate to or even predict and outcome of interest such as falls, infections, length of hospital stay, and so on. The term “predictive analytics” is a “hot” trend in healthcare today, but often misunderstood or, unfortunately, just hype. The aim of this episode is to provide listeners tangible ways to evaluate if a service or product is actually using true predictive analytics. In this episode, Dr. John Nelson describes the basics of what are true predictive analytics, what questions should be asked when considering a product or service, and how informaticists and leaders can begin using predictive analytics to improve outcomes.
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    34 mins
  • Creating a Strategy for Success in Healthcare Leadership - Part 2
    Oct 11 2021
    In this second part on leadership strategy, your host, John Nelson, continues the conversation with Kay Kennedy and Lucy Leclerc from uLeadership. They discuss how having a measure that is specified for the content being taught, which in this case is leadership, creates a greater likelihood that what is being taught can be studied in predictive analytics to study outcomes. The discussion includes the plan to connect relationship centered leadership to outcomes within the organization. Kay and Lucy also share about how a program of caring for self grew out of their leadership program, given it such a dramatic need for both healthcare leaders and staff. How does caring for self relate to outcomes? Dr. Nelson reviews his research in this and relates it to the program presented in this episode.
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    29 mins

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