In Other Words- The Clinical and Construction Guide to Building Patient Centered Environments
Overview:
How many times does a team push to get projects done to meet the bottom line? The budget and schedule are always priorities and communication falls low on the list. Everybody is concerned how to do the project, not about the project's outcome.
Discover the critical role each team member plays
in guiding the future of the healthcare system. Learn construction language, a strategy to reading
plans. Experience the value of translating that into common language so the team can share wisdom
and experience that can be applied to design and construction that serves the medical professional but
most important the patient.
Why should you Attend: Nursing and clinical staff play a critical role in the hospital future improving quality in the built
environment, designing spaces to influence the HCAP scores and engaging patient, staff advisory
boards. Working on a project team can be challenging in reference to understanding design and
construction language, plans and member roles. Learn a simple three step approach that include using
common language and tools to getting a patient centered healthcare project done. Working on the
team using this techniques helps to limit mistakes, decrease waste, saves time and money.
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Introduction
- Define Healthy Patient (HP), Healthy Team (HT), and Healthy Project (HP)
- Healthy Team common language and tools
- Discuss the 3 stages of the plans schematic plans, design development, bidding and permit set of construction plans
- How to evaluate the plans by using the 3 perspectives on Healthy patient, healthy teams and healthy project
- What to look for first, what approvals do you need and the last thing you need before moving to the next stage
- Useful terms in handout HP, HT, HP defined. Useful icons on the plans - for example outlets, and data drops
- Evaluate Plan Stages
- Define Schematic design drawings, design development, construction bid set
- Wrapping it all up - Questions and discussion
Who Will Benefit:
- Nurses, Nurse Managers and Clinicians
- Healthcare Engineers
- Information Technologies, back office support and Telecom Professionals
- Security Professionals for Systems, Cabling and Power Planning
- Healthcare Project Managers