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Start Date
4-16-2024 3:00 PM
End Date
4-16-2024 3:15 PM
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Abstract
Respiratory therapists are an integral part of the healthcare workforce in the United States. The healthcare workforce shortage accelerated by the COVID global pandemic has impacted respiratory therapy departments across the nation, with organizations struggling to hire and retain staff. The prevailing approaches in combating this are linear in nature and do not consider the complexity of the system. This mode of thinking does not adequately consider the characteristics and influences of the containing system, the many elements within the problematic organizational system, or their interdependencies and interactions. This study frames retention as a complex system problem wherein organizations are social systems which include members and groups who collaborate within and between social sub-systems. The study utilizes systems-informed methodologies to frame, navigate, and solve the problem. This project utilized the Cynefin Framework that allows leaders to determine the context of the problem, and to determine which methods or approaches for decision making should be adapted. Interactive planning and idealized design, a systems-thinking methodology, where the problem’s stakeholders creatively design a new system for RT retention based on what is viable, feasible, and desirable, is used to develop a prototype to solve or dissolve the problem.
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Retention of Respiratory Therapists: A Systems Thinking Approach
Abstract
Respiratory therapists are an integral part of the healthcare workforce in the United States. The healthcare workforce shortage accelerated by the COVID global pandemic has impacted respiratory therapy departments across the nation, with organizations struggling to hire and retain staff. The prevailing approaches in combating this are linear in nature and do not consider the complexity of the system. This mode of thinking does not adequately consider the characteristics and influences of the containing system, the many elements within the problematic organizational system, or their interdependencies and interactions. This study frames retention as a complex system problem wherein organizations are social systems which include members and groups who collaborate within and between social sub-systems. The study utilizes systems-informed methodologies to frame, navigate, and solve the problem. This project utilized the Cynefin Framework that allows leaders to determine the context of the problem, and to determine which methods or approaches for decision making should be adapted. Interactive planning and idealized design, a systems-thinking methodology, where the problem’s stakeholders creatively design a new system for RT retention based on what is viable, feasible, and desirable, is used to develop a prototype to solve or dissolve the problem.
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