Longwoods Radio
Listen here and you'll get life-tested insights and practical strategies from some of the most accomplished thought leaders, healthcare leaders and industry experts. Stay current with best practices, innovative management ideas and lessons learned covering a wide range of topics and issues relevant to health services delivery. Podcasts broadcast healthcare case studies; interviews with policy makers, thought provoking columns and shorts.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 53
- Years Active
- 2004 - 2009
Baneful Legacy: Medicare and Mr. Trudeau
The Constitution created by the Trudeau government is now threatening Canada's medicare system. What can be done to defend it?
00:17:22 |
Fri 16 May 2008
Kafka, New Orleans, the OARs and the KT Boundary
Reverse the flow of Kafka's fable of the Imperial Message and you have the problem of Knowledge Transfer - the message is not getting through.
00:15:17 |
Fri 16 May 2008
The Blind Men, the Elephant and the CT Scanner
Effective interdisciplinary research requires the institutional equivalent of the CT scanner's integrative capacity. The normal dynamics of university-based research, however, pull instead toward dis…
00:14:11 |
Fri 16 May 2008
High Reliability versus High Autonomy: Dryden, Murphy and Patient Safety
Healthcare is not a high-reliability industry. The adverse event rate is on the order of 10-2; industries such as aviation, nuclear power and railways achieve rates of 10-5 or better. Increasing awar…
00:16:15 |
Fri 16 May 2008
Improving Work Life Quality: A Diagnostic Approach Model
This paper outlines the systematic approach used at Bluewater Health, to recognize the importance of quality of work life and progresses from diagnosis to implementation of improvements, with positiv…
00:19:10 |
Fri 16 May 2008
A Capitol Approach: Tobacco Treatment and Cessation within Nova Scotia's Capitol Health District
The following article describes the rationale, guiding principles, key components and future directions of APTS's "To Be Tobacco Free" program.
00:18:14 |
Fri 16 May 2008
Nursing Professional Practice Councils: The Quest for Nursing Excellence
The desire to create an environment where nurses were valued, supported and empowered led to the development of a Nursing Professional Practice Council within an Ontario Public Health Unit.
00:10:23 |
Fri 16 May 2008
Reconciling the Quality and Safety Gap through Strategic Planning
To mitigate the quality and safety chasm, nursing leadership at St. Michael's Hospital undertook a strategic plan to enhance the nursing professional practice environment.
00:12:34 |
Fri 16 May 2008
Infrastructure for Board Accountability: Governance Structures and Processes for a Community Hospital
Responsibilities of governing and managing the affairs of a healthcare organization have been in the forefront of Ontario Hospitals with the introduction of Bill 8.
00:11:56 |
Fri 16 May 2008
Designing an Efficient Hospital Porter System
This paper describes 10 steps necessary to develop a centralized managed porter system.
00:16:26 |
Fri 16 May 2008
Evaluating Our RN Recruitment Plan
This case study describes the plans and strategies for the sourcing of Registered Nurses at The Ottawa Hospital.
00:14:16 |
Fri 16 May 2008
Reducing Patient Transportation Costs
Suggesting to patients and families that they could pay for the transport has resulted in better outcomes for patients and families, the hospital and the community.
00:08:51 |
Fri 16 May 2008
FS-4 Facilitates True-to-Life Training at Leading Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Stemming from the use of simulation-based training in the aviation field, the human patient simulator lets hospital teams practise high-crisis medical situations.
00:06:40 |
Thu 01 Jan 2004
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