Ask the expert: Countering the challenges of staff quality improvement meetings
Nurse Leader Weekly, October 4, 2010
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This week, Cynthia Barnard, MBA, MSJS, CPHQ, explains ways to ensure staff quality improvement (QI) meetings are fresh, informative, and a priority for all staff members.
Q: A staff QI meeting for the frontline workforce in my facility is becoming increasingly difficult to implement due to everyone's busy schedule. What can I do to show that these meetings should be a priority?
A: Time and logistics are the most common problems. The daily challenges of running a cost-effective operation may easily push a staff meeting to the bottom of the priority list. For example, patient care, medical staff needs, and staffing shortages are high priorities. Make sure you counter such challenges by:
• Ensuring that the meeting has real value. Structure a substantive agenda so that the meeting is not merely a formality, but is actually productive.
• Conducting the meeting efficiently. Meetings don’t have to last an hour. Much routine information that doesn’t need discussion can be assembled and posted in a staff report room or other nonpublic location. Focus the meeting agenda on items that require action, and leave the routine items for staff members to review later.
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