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Patient Safety Executive Development Program
Fall 2023 | Boston, MA

With today’s shrinking health care budgets and growing focus on costs, it has never been more important to have a robust safety plan. Maintaining a powerful safety program is essential to the long-term health of your department, organization, or health care system — and to ensuring that your patients receive the safe and reliable care they deserve. To position your organization for success, attend IHI’s Patient Safety Executive Development Program.
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Begins September 7, 2023 | Online and London, UK

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Improvement Advisor Professional Development Programme helps individuals in this critical role build and hone high-level improvement skills. This richly-packed, 10-month programme is an “all teach, all learn” experience.
Creating Workforce Joy and Well-Being
Begins September 13, 2023 | Online Course with Coaching

To help reverse the worrying trend of burnout among health care professionals, IHI developed the Creating Workforce Joy and Well-Being, a 12-week online course full of new thinking, resources, strategies, frameworks, and solutions that will help workforces truly thrive.

What’s the Secret to Change Implementation?

Lloyd Provost, MS; Statistician, Associates for Process Improvement

Have trouble viewing this video? Read the transcript.

Learning Objectives: At the end of this activity, you will be able to:

Discuss how improvement methodology can help you implement change.
Describe four key differences between PDSA for improvement versus PDSAs for implementation.

Description: According to Lloyd Provost, co-author of the Improvement Guide, implementing a change isn’t just difficult — it’s “one of the hardest things in the world.” Why is implementation so tricky? How can you overcome the barriers to implementation when you have a change that you know is great? Learn from one of the leading experts in improvement science in this Open School video short.

Discussion Questions:

Provost believes that implementing change is very difficult. Do you agree? Why or why not?
Have you ever tried to implement a change, in your personal life or at work? How did it go?
Pause the video at the 1:00 mark on the table that compares pilot testing to testing for implementation (or view a PDF version of the table). What are the key differences between the two phases, and why do these differences exist?

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What’s the Secret to Change Implementation?