BackgroundTransition to Practice Programs (TPPs) support graduate nurses and midwives during their first year of clinical practice. ‘Work readiness’ theory proposes specific skills, knowledge, attributes are needed successfully transition into the workplace.AimsTo measure development self-perceived work readiness among graduates undertaking a 12-month TPP.MethodsRepeated measure, cross-sectiona...

Lean Six Sigma (LSS) has been applied in many healthcare organisations, but there limited research on the evolution of LSS application healthcare. This paper aims to present challenges, critical success factors (CSFs), readiness and most common tools techniques used for deployment A systematic literature review (SLR) was utilised study objectives. Peer-reviewed over a 16-year period studied und...

OBJECTIVE Valid, reliable critical appraisal tools advance quality improvement (QI) intervention impacts by helping stakeholders identify higher quality studies. QI approaches are diverse and differ from clinical interventions. Widely used critical appraisal instruments do not take unique QI features into account and existing QI tools (eg, Standards for QI Reporting Excellence) are intended for...

Purpose: To show how e-readiness indicators, specifically the Networked Readiness Index, participate in the work of defining policy problems. Methodology/Approach: The article critically examines the Networked Readiness Index is terms of its presentation and its underlying model. It relies on an approach to policy analysis that views policy problems as socially constructed. Findings: E-readines...

This paper is a preliminary report on using FLOSSmole data retrieved from open source repositories (forges) to calculate Business Readiness Rating scores.

In their recent editorial Mannion and Braithwaite provide an insightful critique of traditional patient safety improvement efforts, and offer a powerful alternative vision based on Safety-II thinking that has the potential to radically transform the way we approach patient safety. In this commentary, I explore how the Safety-II perspective points to new directions for organisational learning in...

The aim of this study is to address a gap in the literature associated with influence demographic characteristics personnel working disaster risk management on organisational level preparedness field. further aims identify impact human, organisational, technological, coordination and environmental factors readiness Saudi Arabia dealing crises disasters. case applied purposeful sampling approach...

This research aims to assess the organisational readiness and maturity of continuous improvement (CI) deployment in a medical device manufacturer. A single case study approach was used, an Irish company with 500 indirect staff members. The data were collected through quantitative survey, results used provide practical measures assessment inform future development CI initiative. demonstrates tha...