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| We made it! Our second issue is flying out the door...v1.1...focus on "me"
Well...not really. We are pleased to say that Banner is leading the way with "new" subscriptions. Good job Crystal.
We still need to SPREAD THE WORD, and we can't do it without you. If you have a LIST of emails that I can plug into the program and send the newsletter to, please send it to me. I promise, for our use only.
These are exciting times. PLEASE also feel free to forward (Button just down and left, and also at bottom) to 200 of your closest friends! (The only reason I ask for a "list" is that I believe if you forward the newsletter and someone "opts out" it will opt your email out since your info is embedded in the forward...I know too much info, get on with the newsletter!)
All the best to you and yours!
Dan Nienhauser, Cohort Beta
PS If this is not of interest, we apologize. There is a one click unsubscribe button top and bottom.
PPS We need contributions from all over healthcare! We will accept external ideas, calendar events and submissions!
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 It's all about me!!!
Faculty CORNER-- Kathy Malloch, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, Program Director: ASU CONHI, Masters of Healthcare Innovation
When I agreed to be the program director for the MHI program, I knew it would be an experience unlike any other that I had previously in my 35 year nursing career. The goal of this program, to develop leaders with unique and practical skills that will empower them to become leaders of innovation, has been realized many times over in the last two years. Our course work has been deliberately constructed to begin with developing personal awareness, moving into the application of theoretical knowledge in real life situations, and completing the program with a Capstone project.
As we near the time for graduation of our first cohort, it is especially heartwarming to reflect that indeed this has been an experience unlike any other. In a very short time, I have experienced student empowerment in numerous ways. Students are gaining essential competence in becoming the best leaders of innovation for healthcare that they can be. In a very short time, students have learned to assess their individual innovation skills, to assess team members competencies, create intelligent complex adaptive systems, analyze software products, experience new technologies, appreciate the importance of evidence and rigor in creating the future, and most of all that it is now the students who quickly tell us, "it's all about me!"
This critical realization has been foundational for student growth in the MHI program. Our basic tenet in creating the infrastructure for innovation is that the leader must know him / herself better than anyone else could possibly know them. Each faculty member has worked with the students in unique and focused ways to require (not encourage) students to be very clear about what they know, their values, their communication styles, their expectations of others and their dark side as well. Individuals cannot be all things to all people, but they can be clear about what they can do and what they cannot do. What is also unique about the MHI student is that if they are not familiar with a particular topic, they work to find the experts and then determine if they need to learn more about the topic or leave it for someone else.
For each session that students are together on campus, I am truly excited to stand in front of them and proclaim that "it is all about me!" It is all about me learning what students need, where they are in their development as an innovation leader, what I can do to facilitate their progress, what accountabilities they are willing to commit to in order to achieve their goals, and what level of participation I need to be engaged with each student. It is all about me allowing students to learn, practice and live the tenet that for the innovation leader, "It is all about them!"
One final thought on "it's all about me" is the issue about what are students going to do with the MHI degree. The types of jobs are expected to be in leadership roles, project management oversight, and job roles that have yet to be created. After several courses in the MHI program, students readily answer this question-"I will be able to do whatever I want to do!" This is an empowering statement that makes us all proud and a little teary eyed. |
Social Network NING helps bring together Arizona Simulation Network
Dan Weberg, RN BSN CEN, MacGyver of Sim, Cohort Beta
The Arizona Simulation Network, a group of health care educators who use patient simulation, has migrated to web 2.0. The group was originally formed using Yahoo Groups which allowed files to be posted and discussions to be started but lacked usability and interaction.
After a recommendation from MHI Tech guru Dan Nienhauser about a social network creation site called NING, it was time for an upgrade. MHI students are routinely exploring new ways to use technology and leadership to effect change. Dan discovered NING when he was looking for a prototype home for Innobox, a new business venture.
After a few minutes of clicking, a picture upload, and 10 minutes of inputting email addresses the new site was up and broadcasted to the world. Within a week the site had 33 members from not only Arizona, but the world (one member is from Tazmania, seriously).
Quickly, members began to create their personalities by uploading simulation videos, asking questions on the discussion board, and posting blogs on new simulation uses. NING provides a MySpace type format that can be customized to any groups needs. The Arizona Simulation Network hopes to bring together educators to share ideas, scenarios, and innovation to promote effective use of simulation in Arizona.
If you would like to join the Arizona Simulation Network please contact Dan Weberg at Dan.Weberg@asu.edu, or visit the site at www.azsimnet.ning.com |
It's all about me...a better me.
Caryn Unterschuetz, BSS, RN, Cohort Beta
The students in the MHI program are mentored by a knowledgeable and seasoned faculty in quantum leadership and innovation. A favorite quote of our program director is, "It's all about me."
Our standard response to her is, "Yes, Kathy, we know it's all about you!"
But in her somewhat playful return of a favorite phrase lies a deeper meaning. It is, indeed, all about me: How I choose to wake up in the morning. How I choose to react to a situation and not take things personally. How I choose to pay it forward and make my way in the world without leaving footprints of unresolved conflict and negativity.
I have a choice to live my life in the present moment with gratitude and that is the only choice I have. I cannot control the universe. I can only control my response to its challenges. It's being comfortable with where I am today, and realizing that the process itself contains many opportunities to discern, and learn from observation.
I will graduate in August with a better understanding of who I am and what strengths I bring to an organization. I have increased my leadership skills and continued to strengthen a mind that works overtime trying to determine methods to fix a broken healthcare system and empower others. If this resonates somewhere in you, too, I encourage you to join us in our journey. |
Making Change Happen...
Monica Munos, RN BSN, Cohort Charlie
The key elements involved with innovation evaluation are customer/end user engagement with project involvement, awareness of the environment, and measurable outcomes. The Masters in Healthcare Innovation program has brought me from novice thinker to Knowledgeable doer. I have also recently started my own consultant company. The capstone project in the MHI program has been one of my best learning experiences, both as a Nurse as well as an individual-entrepreneur.
My first project was on a process I developed called Rapid Medical Examination (RME). It was successfully implemented in an emergency room (ER) and has improved the patient satisfaction scores, decreased lobby wait times and left-without-being-seens, as well as improved patient-to-provider times. RME moves the provider closer to the patient front line. Together with a nurse the practitioner interacts with patients as they enter the front door of the ER. RME has been a significant cultural change within our department and continues to improve outcomes in the early evaluation of the patients, and this was just my first capstone project! My second capstone project is currently in progress. I am leveraging my newfound comfort and knowledge to build a consulting business.
We are now learning about the process of becoming an entrepreneur and starting a business (Capstone II). I am working on my communication and confidence skills -- before the MHI program I would have never considered building my own business. This program has engaged me and others to look at other ways to create change that deliver better outcomes and add value for everyone involved. I am now more aware of the environment around me and this is helping me develop into a better communicator. The measurable outcome of this program is the unbridled growth and development one sees in themselves...in less than a year! Change is possible if you dare to take the steps and be an innovative LEADER. |
| New Program to Present at
AzONE April 20
There is little doubt that healthcare needs change. The MHI program at Arizona State University College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation plans to change all that.
The first Cohort of the Masters In Healthcare Innovation, better known internally as 'alpha and beta', will be presenting on "innovation in healthcare -- our perceptions, new realities, challenges and opportunities."
Crystal Jenkins, Fredda Kermes Tami Longo, and Dan Nienhauser will present from 10:30am-nooon at the Cowden Center on John C. Lincoln campus to AzOne membership. | |
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