Description
You got into healthcare because you wanted to help people, but quickly discovered providing high-quality care is challenging. Seemingly unimaginable demands are placed on you and your team. Some coworkers are constantly complaining; others are in their silos doing only what they should to get through the long days. Collaboration is continuously lacking, and patients suffer the painful consequences. It’s easy to develop into overloaded with work and overwhelmed with negativity.
This is not how the healthcare profession has to be. There is a new science – Positive Psychology – that studies how people may be able to perform extraordinarily well in challenging situations. After a dozen years of research in prestigious medical centers, an evidence-based method for applying this science has been developed. That six step program is PROPEL.
You will read stories illustrating the experiences of doctors, nurses and administrators who learned to use PROPEL to develop into their professional life (and, for many, their personal life as well). You’re going to learn how they were able to attain remarkable results with their teams, units and clinics:
• Staff callout and FMLA decreased 75%
• Wait times for chemotherapy infusion reduced 6 hours
• Staff turnover dropped 80%
• Pediatric MRI scheduling driven down from 14 weeks to 10 days
• Bone marrow transplant procedures increased by 50%
• ED diversion because of psychiatric patient boarding virtually eliminated
• Patient fall rate cut by 70%
• Use of agency and travelers nurses abolished
• Patient satisfaction scores up 50%
The cumulative have an effect on to the bottom line has been calculated to be millions of dollars. The most meaningful measure of PROPEL’s success, on the other hand, comes from the thousands of dedicated professionals who have expressed heartfelt gratitude for having learned how to recapture their joy for working in healthcare.