Thesis (M.H.A.)--University of Michigan, 1963.

Thesis (M.H.A.)--University of Michigan, 1963.

Relaying information from a Chief Communications Officer (CIO), or centralized communications departments to hospital employees is not always efficient or effective. Employees may not be informed of important changes to department protocols or hospital policies. The purpose of the study was to determine the most efficient and effective forms of internal communications in the hospital setting. A total of 83 surveys were mailed to communication officers working in Tennessee hospitals in and east of Nashville. Sixteen communication officers responded. This low response rate may be attributed to poor designation of communication responsibilities and an abdication of responsibilities to an off campus (corporate) source. One significant difference was found regarding the preference of supervisor contact to relay feedback in the age groups of 31-40 and 51-60. Those 31-40 were less likely to prefer direct supervisor contact as their favored communications channel as opposed to 51-60 year olds who favored this method.

<p>Hospitals are complex socio-technical systems where health professionals from varied backgrounds interact with each other and technology for the wellbeing of patients. Effective communication among the members of the care team is vital for optimal care; poor communication can result in suboptimal care and in many cases, lead to adverse events (AEs) and even death. More than a decade after the US Institute of Medicine report which catalyzed patient safety improvement measures, patient safety remains a major concern. Two-thirds of AEs in hospitals are still linked to communication errors. Hospitals are trying to improve communication by introducing new communication devices like smart phones and tablet computers for professional use. However, they are being deployed without adequate study of the mechanics of communication in hospitals or their use affects inter-professional communication. High risk organizations such as nuclear power plants, aviation and the military have achieved better safety records than healthcare. This is likely because they have studied their communication challenges and based their assessments on a firm theoretical foundation before implementing customized solutions. This approach in healthcare is lacking. Therefore a scoping review was conducted to collect communication theories, models, frameworks, and methods applicable to new information and communication technology used in hospitals. Literature from basic and applied science domains such as cognitive psychology, human factors engineering, organizational behavior, sociology, communication sciences and from high risk organizations like aviation, nuclear power generation and defense was reviewed. 14 theories, 12 models and 12 communication analysis methods were identified. One of the selected methods was employed to conduct a case study of a case of faulty communication reported in the AHRQ web M&M. It is not known how well those theories, models and analysis methods can be adapted to medicine. Future research may be able to address the issue and adopt theories and models to hospital communication research, modifying existing theories and models to suit the unique requirements of hospitals or by developing a strategy to design them de-novo.</p> / Master of Science (MSc)

Cette thèse porte sur la communication externe des centres hospitaliers universitaires en France, plus particulièrement sur la communication via les réseaux sociaux. La compréhension et l’analyse des informations les plus partagées et les plus interactives favorisent notre objectif qui est de faire émerger un modèle communicationnel hospitalier.Il s’agit donc dans un premier temps de mieux comprendre le système hospitalier français et son développement, ainsi que l’évolution du terme « santé ». Pour cela nous aborderons également des thèmes comme la « E-Santé », illustration de la croisée des technologies de l’information, de la communication et du système de santé ainsi que de la prise en charge du patient. Nous constatons que la position du malade vis-à-vis de son médecin a été modifiée depuis l’avènement de nouveaux médias permettant un accès libre et constant à certains savoirs.Ces mutations ont un impact direct sur la communication des hôpitaux qui se doivent d’être plus ouverts et transparents, mais également modernes. De ce fait nous avons choisi d’analyser les réseaux sociaux les plus utilisés par les CHU, YouTube, Facebook et Twitter. Nous nous intéressons également à deux autres supports de communication, le livret d’accueil, étant un document obligatoire à tous, et les sites internet des CHU. L’étude faite propose une comparaison des établissements quant au contenu transmis par chacun de ces supports et la commodité pour y accéder. Elle ouvre une perspective nouvelle dans le champ de la communication externe des hôpitaux et fait envisager une réponse plus précise à la demande d’information des usagers. Nous avons recensé également auprès des professionnels, par des questionnaires, un besoin de plus de fluidité dans la communication au sein de l’hôpital. Notre travail permet donc de voir les avancées et les limites de la communication externe actuelle des hôpitaux mais surtout d’ouvrir la voie à de nouvelles façons de communiquer pour ces établissements. / This thesis is about external communication of university hospital in France, more precisely on communication through social networks. Understanding and analysing the most shared and interactive information make our aim easier to design a model for hospital communication. Firstly, we need to better understand the French hospital system and its history, as well as the change of meaning of the word “health”. To demonstrate this, we will address issues such as E.health as being the meeting point of media, communication, and healthcare technologies, as well as patient management.We notice that the patient’s behaviour towards the doctor has changed since the arrival of new media technologies allowing people to get some resources at any time and freely.These changes have a direct impact on hospitals communication which have to become more opened, clear, and also modern. Then we choose to analyse the most used networks by the university hospitals, Youtube, Facebook and twitter.We also mention two other communication aids, the patient booklet which has to be delivered to every patient, and internet websites. The present research proposes a comparison of the hospitals on the content of each of their aids and the convenience to have access to them. It opens a new perspective in the field of hospital external communication and allows a more precise response to patient’s enquiries. Thanks to surveys among professionals, we have also found that there was a need for more fluid communication between the different departments within the hospital. Our research makes visible the developments and the limits of the current external communication in hospitals but above all opens the way to new communication means in these establishments.

Orientador: Wilza Carla Spiri / Resumo: Introdução: uma das atividades fundamentais, no trabalho de Enfermagem, é a passagem de plantão, a qual é crucial para a garantia da continuidade das ações que estão sendo dispensadas aos pacientes. Nesse sentido, a comunicação torna-se indispensável para que as equipes consigam planejar e executar bem suas atividades, adotando um fluxo adequado de comunicação com canais bem estruturados, facilitando o funcionamento das rotinas assistenciais e administrativas. Objetivo: descrever o processo de validação semântica de um instrumento de passagem de plantão utilizando a metodologia SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation). Método: trata-se de estudo metodológico para construção e validação de um instrumento de passagem de plantão. Foi realizada uma revisão bibliográfica abrangente sobre a ferramenta SBAR e elaboração do instrumento de passagem de plantão. O instrumento foi validado em março de 2019 por dez juízes da área de ensino e assistência. Posteriormente o instrumento foi aplicado na enfermaria de Gastroenterologia cirúrgica, do hospital cenário da pesquisa no mês de fevereiro de 2019, por 11 técnicos de enfermagem que compõem o quadro funcional dessa enfermaria e que responderam um questionário avaliando o instrumento validado para a passagem de plantão. As análises foram realizadas considerando a estatística descritiva. Resultados: os resultados demonstram que os juízes foram constituídos por mulheres (80%), com média de idade de 42,5 anos e tempo de profissã... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Introduction: one of the fundamental activities in nursing work is the change of shift, which is crucial to guarantee the continuity of the actions that are being dispensed to patients. In this sense, communication becomes indispensable for teams to plan and execute their activities, adopting an adequate flow of communication with well-structured channels, facilitating the functioning of care and administrative routines. Aim: to describe the process of semantic validation of a change of shift instrument using the SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation). Method: This is a methodological study for the construction and validation of a change of shift instrument. A comprehensive bibliographic review was done on the SBAR tool and preparation of the change of shift instrument. The instrument was validated by ten judges from the academic and assistance area. Afterwards, the instrument was applied to the surgical gastroenterology ward of the research scenario by 11 nursing technicians who compose the functional picture of this ward and who answered a questionnaire evaluating the validated instrument for the change of shift. The analyzes were performed considering the descriptive statistics. Findings: the results show that the judges consisted of women (80%), with a average of age of 42.5 years and a profession of 16 years, 40% of professors and 30% of managers and assistants, with graduation (40% ), doctorate (30%), specialization (20%), master's degree and post-doctora... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T15:29:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Fernanda Nunes.pdf: 604505 bytes, checksum: fdf428d1b77a0da1e73dd2797c1fc5a2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-04 / Health organizations are social systems consist of patterned activities implemented in a complementary, interdependent, with structures, people, technologies, processes, services / products, culture and communication system itself. The communication tool is responsible for coordinating and enabling dialogue between the various subsystems that compose the organization. The hospital is one of the more complex types of organization, due to the extensive network of activities / services it provides and develops. Is multi-purpose space, employs large numbers of skilled professionals, has a division of labor heavily accented. Manage it efficiently is a challenge, involving modern management, strategy planning, organizational communication enabling the effective deployment of actions as well as dissemination of the mission, goals, philosophy to be made by all employees. Considering the relevance of communication processes within the hospitals public institutions, this work aims generally describe and analyze how it establishes the communication process between nursing units of a university hospital and between them and their administrative sectors to which it relates. We chose the method of case study and the study was developed in a university hospital in Goiânia-GO with 27 nurse managers from service units of the Board of Nursing (DE). Data collection was divided into two stages, integrating individual interviews and semi-structured group interview, recorded, transcribed and analyzed together with data from observations made during the interviews recorded in the field diary. The material was treated on the basis of content analysis. The results revealed that the intersetorial communication happens primarily through telephone calls, personal meetings, documents for internal circulation, dealing primarily with the demands of patients. With DE regard to situations or problems related to care, administrative issues of conservation, building maintenance, solicitation and acquisition of material. With the administrative sectors oriented messages to request services, maintenance and supply of materials. Most participants stressed that communication is efficient in its purpose of transmitting information, but is not effective in providing behavior change in the receivers. We identified five themes for factors that hinder communication: structural constraints of hospital, complexity of hospital organization, features of public organizations and lack of systemic vision of nurse managers and other servers. The factors that drive: agile movement of information, support, hierarchical organizational structure, coordination and integration between units and sectors, strengthening of problem situations, cooperative professional attitude, use of informal communication. To cope with the problems encountered in research is suggested improvement of skills of all employees and managers of hospital information technology in the communication process, the organizational changes in order to get more horizontal organizational structure, based on shared management model that achieves the principles of modern management. It is recommended that future studies be conducted among other boards, and other professional staff who are not in a managerial role with the intention to expand the scope of the investigation / padronizadas executadas de forma complementar, interdependentes, com estruturas, pessoas, tecnologias, processos de serviços/produtos, cultura e sistema de comunicação própria. A comunicação é ferramenta responsável por coordenar e permitir o diálogo entre os vários subsistemas que compõem a organização. A instituição hospitalar é um dos tipos mais complexos de organização, devido à extensa rede de atividades/serviços que presta e desenvolve. É espaço de múltiplas finalidades, emprega grande número de profissionais especializados, possui uma divisão de trabalho fortemente acentuada. Administrá-la de modo eficiente é um desafio, que envolve gestão moderna, planejamento de estratégias de comunicação organizacional que permita a implantação eficiente de ações, bem como disseminação da missão, objetivos, filosofia a serem assumidos por todos os funcionários. Considerando a relevância dos processos comunicacionais dentro das instituições públicas hospitalares, esse trabalho teve como objetivo geral descrever e analisar como se estabelece o processo de comunicação entre unidades de enfermagem de um hospital universitário e entre as mesmas e setores administrativos com os quais se relaciona. Optou-se pelo método do estudo de caso, sendo a pesquisa desenvolvida em hospital universitário em Goiânia-GO com 27 enfermeiros gerentes das unidades de atendimento da Diretoria de Enfermagem(DE). A coleta de dados dividiu-se em duas etapas, integrando entrevistas individuais semi-estruturadas e entrevista grupal, gravadas, transcritas e analisadas juntamente com dados de observações realizadas durante as entrevistas registradas no diário de campo. O material foi tratado com base na análise temática de conteúdo. Os resultados revelaram que a comunicação intersetorial na DE acontece prioritariamente por contato telefônico, encontros pessoais, documentos de circulação interna, tratando basicamente das demandas com pacientes. Com a DE diz respeito a situações problemas ou relacionadas à assistência, questões administrativas de conservação, manutenção predial, solicitação e aquisição de material. Com os setores administrativos as mensagens se orientam para solicitação de serviços, manutenção e suprimento de materiais. A maioria dos participantes ressaltou que a comunicação é eficiente em seu objetivo de transmitir informações, porém não é eficaz em proporcionar mudança de comportamento nos receptores. Identificaram-se cinco categorias temáticas para os fatores que dificultam a comunicação: limitações estruturais do hospital, complexidade da organização hospitalar, particularidades das organizações públicas e falta de visão sistêmica de enfermeiros gerentes e demais servidores. Os fatores que a impulsionam: agilidade na circulação das informações, suporte da estrutura hierárquica organizacional, articulação e integração entre unidades e setores, intensificação das situações problemas, postura profissional cooperativa, uso da comunicação informal. Para enfrentamento dos problemas encontrados na pesquisa sugere-se aperfeiçoamento das competências de todos os funcionários e gerentes do hospital, informatização no processo da comunicação, alterações do organograma, no sentido de buscar estrutura organizacional mais horizontalizada, baseada em modelo de gestão compartilhada que atinja princípios da administração moderna. Recomenda-se que estudos futuros sejam realizados junto às outras diretorias, demais categorias profissionais e funcionários que não estão em função gerencial com a intenção de ampliar o alcance da investigação