Safety Issues
Conditions
Brief summary
Effect of Lean Leadership Training Program on Head Nurses' Lean Performance and Staff Nurses' Workplace Safety at Mansoura Children Hospital
Detailed description
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.
Interventions
OTHERLean Leadership
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.
Sponsors
Mansoura University
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
22 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Agree to participate in the study. * Head nurses have at least one year of job experience.
Exclusion criteria
* Agree to involve in the study. - Staff nurses have at least one year of job experience in the current job
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Staff Nurses' perception about work environment safety as assessed by Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES - NWI | from start to finish, up to three month | 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. |
Countries
Egypt
Outcome results
None listed