Frontline Managers
Format: PDF (color and black and white)
Size: 8.5" x 11"
Intended audience: Frontline workers, unit-based teams
Best used: Write in the box a phrase that helps you keep your cool in a tense situation. Color the diagram and hang in your work space.
What's a phrase that helps you keep your cool in a tense situation?
Format:
PDF (color and black and white)
Size:
8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
Anyone with a sense of humor
Best used:
Our comic superhero helps make it clear that everyone has a part in solving problems in their department's UBT.
Our comic superhero shows how everyone has a part in solving problems in their department's UBT.
Issue Resolution Form
Is something not working as it should in the Labor Management Partnership? Has an issue gone unresolved using the interest-based problem-solving process? Our partnership provides ways to solve problems that have gotten stuck. Use this simple form to start moving it toward resolution.
Oversight Reduces Document Scanning Errors
- Hosting in-service to discuss how to properly set up a scanning procedure
- Monitoring the process to ensure the scanning was done properly
- Sharing feedback about the process so every team member can learn from any mistake
What can your team do to work with other UBTs so you can both improve? What additional training could your team benefit from?
Provide Good Care, Save With Secondary Tubing
- Looking for less expensive options, like switching from primary tubing to secondary tubing
- Using secondary instead of primary tubing for IV patients, whenever it is medically safe
- Working through the change so everyone on the team understands and adapts
What can your team do to make sure it's using the right supplies for the job? What else could your team do to keep KP affordable for patients and members?
Spread the Love and Build Their Loyalty
- Creating ID system for new members, such as highly visible yellow stickers on member cards
- Training staff and doctors about the importance of new members and how to make them feel welcome
- Making outreach calls for the new member's first appointment
What can your team do to welcome new members to KP?
Reduce Stock of On-Hand Meds and Save
- Assessing on-hand pharmaceutical supplies for need
- Working with providers to reduce cost and amount of needed drugs
- Reducing number of on-hand meds
What can your team do to order and use supplies wisely? What else could your team do to help keep KP affordable for members and patients?
Stretch Your Team to Workplace Safety
- Developing stretching routines that target large muscle groups and various joint areas
- Adding stretch routines that help lifting, pulling, pushing and twisting to daily 7 a.m. huddles
- Discussing workplace safety at every morning huddle and encouraging full participation
What can your team do to prevent injuries?
Courtesy Calls Resonate With Ultrasound Patients
- Reviewing upcoming ultrasound appointments to schedule reminder calls
- Dividing call duties among different assigned staffers to ensure privacy
- Calling a day in advance of appointments to discuss patient instructions
What can your team do to reach out to patients? And how could your team work with other teams to improve service?