Category: Continuous Improvement

A Nurse’s Wish for National Nurses Week (and no, it’s not a pizza party)

By Gayle Porter
May 8, 2023

I love having lunch with my nurse colleagues. Whenever we fuel our minds over salads and sandwiches, we also solve problems in healthcare, identifying what we believe is the

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Failure & Evaluation in Healthcare

By Gayle Porter
April 7, 2023

Thomas Edison had 1,093 patents for his inventions. The successful ones like the lightbulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera changed the world, but who has heard of

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“Computers Don’t Make Mistakes” and Other Fallacies

By Gayle Porter
March 20, 2023

I gasped as the image became clear: A young ballerina with six fingers, backwards ears, and teeth like a carnivorous piranha. I was trying to use an Artificial Intelligence

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Data Resources: Putting it All Together

By Gayle Porter
December 19, 2022

With so many data resources, how do I pull it together and make sense of it? What is the compass that will guide me through the forest of information?

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Surveys & Peer Review

By Gayle Porter
December 12, 2022

I learned in school that it helps to have someone check my work before I submit embarrassing spelling errors about “Bare Activity in the Forest” to my biology teacher.

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Are Case Studies Useful?

By Gayle Porter
December 5, 2022

My father used to complain that he had “tired ears.” I didn’t understand what he meant until I became a parent: When I took a walk with my two-year-old

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