Category: Quality Professionals

“Help, I Need a Bureaucrat!” A Healthcare Comedy.

By Gayle Porter
August 29, 2023

“Oh my, are you bleeding?” The nurse stood with her hands on her hips, assessing the situation. “Well, yes. I think so,” the patient replied. “I tried pressing the

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Where Nurses Bury Their Stories

By Gayle Porter
July 3, 2023

As a nurse, she took children from their families and smuggled them in boxes and tool chests, placing them in a safe place until the end of the war.

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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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Quality and Digital Change

By Gayle Porter
February 28, 2023

I’ve realized that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is only as good as the data it consumes. If the data pipeline is weak, the AI program withers like a city in

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Hospital Selfies & Data Visibility

By Gayle Porter
February 13, 2023

Have you heard of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) program that was trained to be a psychopath? A group of MIT researchers [1]found out that AI algorithms get pretty dark

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