Strategic goals: Do your goals align with the goals of CMS?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has clearly stated a pathway for change including health literacy, true partnerships and moving the focus of care into a self-management model.
Most recent articles by Martie Moore
Strategic goals: Do your goals align with the goals of CMS?
Many times as leaders we feel that our actions are prescribed by entities beyond our immediate needs of those we serve.
The power of biases
Establishing processes to utilize root cause analysis for quality improvement is necessary, but it takes discipline. One of the first steps is to challenge your own beliefs about safety and quality failures.
Fall prevention and protection from injury: A global challenge
Research indicates that every second of every day, an older adult around the world falls and sustains injury. In a care setting, a fall is even more so troublesome.
Lessons Learned: What falling out of the sky taught me
Suddenly the plane dropped and items went flying, including people. We heard the strange noise again and realized that this was not normal turbulence.
Employee engagement: Bringing head and heart to every action, every day
I shared with the charge nurse my inner joy about filling all our staffing holes completely. She looked at the schedule and mumbled, “Great — you have scheduled nothing but Refrigerator Nurses.”
Don’t be a Humpty Dumpty leader: How to engage your inner creative self
In my last article, I shared with you the latest research on employee and leader engagement. Let’s now look at what leaders can do to improve engagement and help themselves become an engaged leader.
Employee engagement: What story does the data tell leadership?
The first time I used the words “resilience” and “engagement” was with my leadership team at the time. I asked, “What can we do to advance engagement and help people to be more resilient?” Suddenly, everyone around the table had important emails to read on their phone.
Being a leader who leads as if there were no tomorrow
What would our leadership look like if we thought that tomorrow would not come? If we ask ourselves that question, we immediately will reason there is a tomorrow. That is our challenge: We always give ourselves time. Time, in this case, is not our friend.
The call you do not want to make
I can still remember it clearly when the phone rang and a serious voice on the other end of the line told me what happened. My loved one fell and, luckily, didn’t break any bones.
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