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Challenges to Learning:
Patient Safety Events inComplex systems
Patient Safety Event Learning Seminar
Deer Lodge Centre, Winnipeg, MB
November 2, 2010
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Challenges to Learning: (forget about complex systems)
The usual suspects:
– Fear of consequences
– Fear of the law
– Lack of controls (as in cybernetics)
– Messy mental models
– Learning anaphylaxis
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Challenges to learning: Fear of consequences
Fear of consequences
– From the facility – where is the Just and Trusting Culture policy?
– From the department – where is the inter-disciplinary support and commitment to learning?
– From the unit – what will and won’t be used in performance management assessments? (back to the J+T Culture thing)
– From colleagues – how we do things around here?
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Challenges to learning: Fear of the law
Fear of the law:
– “Blueprint” for litigation
– PHIA-noia
– FIPAA-bility
– Bogeyman of the criminal charges
– Do you like to gamble? (1/13 versus 1/160,000)
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Challenges to learning: Lack of controls
Lack of controls (cybernetics gone wild):
– Feedback to staff – why bother reporting?
– Feedback to patients/families – why bother trusting?
– “Feed forward” to other units – why wash “dirty laundry”?
– “Feed forward” to anybody who is interested – the problem of the big bad internet?
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Challenges to learning: Messy mental models
Messy mental models:
• Variation of “if it walks like a duck and looks like a duck…”
• Using linear (or occasionally epidemiological) models to understand the events
• Searching for certainty – “We can’t be sure that the infection led to the patient’s demise, so we can’t consider this a critical incident….”
• Homage to Rene Descartes
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Challenges to learning: Learning anaphylaxis
Learning anaphylaxis:
– Is the facility a learning organization?
– Is the department a learning department?
– Is the unity a learning unit?
– Three cheers for today’s session!!
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Challenges to learning: In a complex system
Healthcare is a complex system:
– Probably a hybrid compared to other complex systems
– Open versus closed system
– Complex adaptive system (NDS) – dynamic nature
– Complex socio-technical (or T-S) system – love the technical stuff
– Basically a mysterious beast – the case of the dog that didn’t bark in the night…
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Challenges to learning: In a complex system
Some surprising elements:
– Nonlinear causation
– Emergent versus resultant properties
– The importance of context – holistic approach
– The system has a history
– Relationships between components more important than the components themselves
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Challenges to learning: In a complex system
All of this requires:
– Different ways of thinking to recognize learning opportunities
– Different ways of reviewing/investigating events to promote understanding
– Different ways of talking about events to promote active and applicable learning
– (Sounds like hard work….it isn’t)
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Challenges to learning: In a complex system
Questions?
Contact info:
Rob RobsonHealthcare system Safety Advisor
[email protected] 519-846-28721-877-405-9313