Resilient Health Care, Volume 3

This book is the 3rd volume in the Resilient Health Care series. Resilient health care is a product of both the policy and managerial efforts to organize, fund and improve services, and the clinical care which is delivered directly to patients. This volume continues the lines of thought in the first two books. Where the first volume provided the rationale and basic concepts of RHC and the second teased out the everyday clinical activities which adjust and vary to create safe care, this book will look more closely at the connections between the sharp and blunt ends. Doing so will break new ground, since the systematic study in patient safety to date with few exceptions has been limited.

Jeffrey Braithwaite, BA, MIR (Hons), MBA, DipLR, PhD, FAIM, FCHSM,

Preface; Editors; Contributors; Prologue: Why Do Our Expectations of How Work Should Be Done; Never Correspond Exactly to How Work Is Done? Towards a Resilient and Lean Health Care; The Jack Spratt Problem: The Potential Downside of Lean Application in Health Care - A Threat to Safety II; Recovery to Resilience: A Patient Perspective; Is System Resilience Maintained at the Expense of Individual Resilience? Challenges in Implementing Resilient Health Care; Exploring Ways to Capture and Facilitate Work-as-Done That Interact with Health Information Technology; Resilience Work-as-Done in Everyday Clinical Work; Understanding Resilient Clinical Practices in Emergency Department Ecosystems; Reporting and Learning: From Extraordinary to Ordinary; Reflections on Resilience: Repertoires and System Features; Power and Resilience in Practice: Fitting a 'Square Peg in a Round Hole' in Everyday Clinical Work; Modelling Resilience and Researching the Gap between Work-as-Imagined and Work-as-Done; Simulation: Closing the Gap between Work-as-Imagined and Work-as-Done; Realigning Work-as-Imagined and Work-as-Done: Can Training Help? Resilient Procedures: Oxymoron or Innovation? Conclusion: Pathways Towards Reconciling WAI and WAD; References; Index