Effect of Lean Leadership Training Program on Head Nurses' Lean Performance and Staff Nurses' Workplace Safety at Mansoura Children Hospital
Many global healthcare challenges, such as infections, preventable errors, growing healthcare costs, and changing patient expectations, have a negative impact on health outcomes. Lean management provides a solution to these problems by reducing costs and eliminating waste . So, implementation of lean practices improves staff performance, adapt to new competitors, and foster flexibility. They are beneficial for economic growth. Research shows that lean practices improve knowledge and skills of head nurses, improve environmental quality, and create a safer and more productive work environment . This study will provide more focus on the value of lean leadership as a new approach to be implemented in Egyptian hospitals to improve leader's competencies, capacity, and skills in determining wastes in care processes by using lean tools and for continuous improvement. Also, it will help in enhancing workplace safety and to provide safe and appropriate care for patient which result in improving health care system as a general. Hence the present study aims to evaluate the effect of a lean leadership training program on workplace safety.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
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NA
Purpose
OTHER
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NONE
Enrollment
200
Lean leadership was doing the right things to increase revenues, satisfying customers and reducing costs by eliminating all activities that do not add value to the product or service. It has five dimensions, namely: continuous improvement, self-development, qualification development, Gemba walk and Hoshin Kanri.
Mansoura University Children Hospital
Mansoura University, Egypt
Staff Nurses' perception about work environment safety as assessed by Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES - NWI
The Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI) is an instrument, which measures the nursing practice environment - defined as factors that enhance or attenuate a nurse's ability to practice nursing skillfully and deliver high quality care.
Time frame: from start to finish, up to three month
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