October 15, 2018 – Team Formation (Part 1) Have you ever wondered why you can’t get your team motivated to accomplish a goal or task?  Take a look at Tuckman’s Team Development Stages to help you move your team forward. You can’t expect a new team to perform well when it first comes together.  A new team is in the FORMING Stage and forming a team takes time. The leader … [Read more...]

October 8, 2018: Patient Care Delivery System Theorists Over the past several weeks we’ve reviewed three theorists on which our professional practice model and patient care delivery system are based.  The fourth and final theorists is Jean Watson and her Theory of Human Caring and Caring Science, developed in the 1970s. This theory views caring in a relational state that … [Read more...]

October 1, 2018: The Patient Care Delivery System (PCDS) describes how all members of the interprofessional team deliver patient and family centered care (PFCC) at Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital.  PFCC is based on the knowledge that patients and families are best served when they are respected for their individual differences, are informed about their care and encouraged … [Read more...]

September 24, 2018 – Professional Practice Model Theorists:  Structure-Process-Outcome Last week’s discussion touched on Bertalanffy’s General System’s Theory and how our healthcare environment is complex with interrelated structures and processes.  This week’s focus is on Avedis Donabedian and his groundbreaking work on the theory and practice of quality assurance in health … [Read more...]

September 17, 2018 – Professional Practice Model Theorists: General System Theory The Houston Methodist Professional Practice Model is based on two theorists, Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s General System Theory (Bertalanffy, 1968) and Avedis Donabedian’s Structure-Process-Outcome Model (Donabedian, 1966). Allow me to channel my inner nerd and summarize. General System Theory … [Read more...]