tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78599991011495501742024-03-05T07:15:57.624+03:00The QualiticianHere is a physician who decided to be a qualitician after being completely dedicated to healthcare quality management and its amazing world full of opportunities, challenges and achievements. A physician who believes that treating individual patients is very important but improving healthcare systems is more important. Turning quality into a reality is a long journey to walk, the start may be really demanding but the end is highly rewarding.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09697236236437158163noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859999101149550174.post-66802954090809445762015-03-10T00:34:00.000+03:002015-03-11T14:16:50.127+03:00BE SAFE: Patient Safety As Never Seen Before<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: justify;">What I would like to share with you my dear qualiticians this time is a very nice and innovative video about patient safety. (BE SAFE) is a song written and composed by Dr.Geoff Randolf the chief medical officer (CMO) of Lutheran Hospital and produced by the hospital to entrench the culture of patient safety as the hospital top priority. It highlights in a very simple, innovative and attractive way many of </span><span style="text-align: justify;">patient safety </span><span style="text-align: justify;">concepts, tools and practices like effective communication, surgical site marking, surgical timeout, verbal and telephone orders, patient falls, double check and medication errors.</span><br />
What about starting to watch this attractive and impressive video instead of talking about it? Let's sing with , learn from and enjoy this amazing work. Many thanks to Dr.Jeoff and all his wonderful team. BE SAFE ... BE SAFE ... BE SAFE ... it's four letter word starts with "S"</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09697236236437158163noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859999101149550174.post-16757733710555428872015-03-09T03:10:00.002+03:002015-03-14T17:12:26.526+03:00Social Media for Personal Branding: Three Questions To Be Answered<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 15.6000003814697px; line-height: 1.3;">I decided to use Twitter, LinkedIn and Google plus to build my personal brand as these social media enable me to have a strong professional network, to express freely my thoughts and ideas and to market my personal brand to the main audience I want to target. Also using those social media simultaneously will augment the impact and maximize the benefits as they address different groups and have different features like short updates in twitter, writing free texts in Google blogs or displaying fully detailed CV in LinkedIn.</span></div>
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My main target is healthcare leaders which includes various groups like hospital managers, accreditation consultants, quality professionals, researchers and professors. I try to have good contacts with key organizations in healthcare quality like hospitals, research centers. universities, accreditation bodies and consultancy agencies.</div>
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My blog is using very simple design with warm colors like orange as a background and clear font with a black color to increase clarity. There is one column for posts to avoid any distraction of the readers. Minimal decorations are used so that readers can focus more on the contents published. All posts will be published with relevant photos or videos to be more attractive or understandable. Regularly a video of high quality related to quality improvement, patient safety, health literacy and healthcare accreditation standards will be published in the blog. Relevant quotes related to quality, leadership, motivation, teamwork and other management concepts or affairs will be posted regularly.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09697236236437158163noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859999101149550174.post-84159997003698813532015-01-14T19:23:00.000+03:002015-03-09T04:10:45.459+03:002015 Gift ... 20 Websites Necessary for Any Qualitician<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">A highly valuable website rich in its resources covering a lot of topics with main focus on healthcare improvement and its unique approach known as " Science of Improvement". Any healthcare professional not only qualiticians should make his membership and start benefiting from its online learning through IHI open school courses, white papers, IHI bundles against hospital acquired infections (HAIs) and a wide variety of other resources which can provide great help to all of us. IHI classification and trigger tool for adverse events are widely adopted and used by many healthcare organizations and professionals. IHI chapters all over the world are another unique activity supported by IHI allowing members to start activities or organize events in their healthcare organizations under the name and with the support of IHI. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">important website addresses the needs of different stakeholders whether patients, professionals or policy makers. AHRQ inpatient, pediatric, patient safety and prevention AHRQ quality indicators are examples of AHRQ quality measures and tools available in this website. AHRQ surveys on patient safety culture is an effective, free and easy-to use tools to assess the patient safety culture in any healthcare organization.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to these, a lot of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">clinical guidelines and recommendations, h</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ealthcare literacy universal precautions toolkit, AHRQ fact sheets, data sources and AHRQ sponsored continuing education activities are made available to users. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As
mentioned in the blog description, I am Mahmoud, an Egyptian
physician who decided to be a qualitician believing that treating ill
healthcare systems is as important as treating sick individual
patients.</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My
journey with quality started in 2008 by my decision to take a higher
diploma in TQM from the AUC after working as a practicing physician
for 5 years and this was really a turn point in my life. I started to
understand why all of us suffer with our healthcare systems, why all
stakeholders are unsatisfied with the outcome and how we can change
this. For all these question, the answer was clear and
straightforward " The System". We spent too much time,
effort and resources focusing on individual cases, individual care
givers, individual healthcare settings without seeing the underlying
systems which at the end have the final say because "Every
system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets," as
said by Deming one of the most influential quality gurus.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">I became
fascinated by the quality realm and its amazing world full of
everything I love opportunities, challenges, achievements, innovation
and teamwork. I realized that I found the field where I can pursue my
values and use all my competences, skills and capabilities to
create a difference.<br />The journey started but has never ended as
quality is an endless race and there is always a big room for
improvement. I became a CPHQ after passing its exam in 2010 then I
started in 2012 my MBA from Leicester University in UK with
specialization in Quality Management and a dissertation about Lean
Six Sigma in Healthcare expected to finish it by next year 2015.
Working in Egypt with different organizations then moving to Saudi
Arabia to join a highly reputable healthcare organization enriched my
experience and made me more ambitious to go far in my career as a
qualitician.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">I asked myself all the time why other professions
have clear titles easily understood by everyone like pharmacist,
accountant, dentist, teacher, writer, journalist ...etc and even
among physicians we have internists, neurologists, pathologists,
epidemiologists, pediatricians and orthopedists .....etc while
quality professionals remain with no unique or specific title
originating from their field still seen by many people as ill-defined
territory. I still face the same comment or question raised by many
colleagues, friends or relatives or at least appear in their eyes
when I speak with them about my field. What do you do exactly? what
you mean by quality specialist or professional?Is it a genuine
scientific field? Now with more knowledge and experience and the most
important with more passion for this charming field, it is very clear
for me : I want to be a qualitician, I love this and I believe in
it.<br />The Qualitician is a highly crafted title trying to mimic
three words mainly politician, statistician and musician.
I believe that any qualitician should be excellent as a
politician not only to mange change, overcome resistance and
resolve conflicts to achieve the objective but also to inspire people
to make them motivated and committed to quality. Statistics and how
to collect, validate, analyze and interpret data remains one of the
most important skills mastered by any qualitician. I believe also
that quality is an art like music and the qualitician needs a real
passion to perform as the maestro orchestrating the team efforts to
work in harmony.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Qualitician aims to build a strong networking
in the field of healthcare quality attracting all existing or
potential qualiticians to create their own realm and to craft
their own profession. The Qualitician will highlight tips, give hints
and discuss issues important for any qualitician. If you are
or interested to be a qualitician, if you are concerned
with healthcare quality and want to find a place to get support, to
gain knowledge, to raise concerns, to discuss dilemmas or to
share your insights and experiences with other qualiticians, here is
your right place as you are always welcome.</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></b></div>
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