Question

Give an example of a problem or quality initiative in a healthcare setting and describe how “systems thinking” was or was not applied to the problem-solving. What were the barriers to solving the problem?

Answer 1

An example of a quality initiative in a health care setting is the organization is focussing on the improvement of quality care or services provided to the patient.

During this time the organization can use system thinking for solving this issue. System thinking is an approach which attempts for holistic thinking and reductionist thinking. In this, the staff members from different disciplines will discuss together and share their own ideas for the improvement of the quality of care for the patient. These different ideas will help to identify the best idea and use in the organization for the improvement of the quality care of the patient.

The barrier of using system thinking for problem-solving is that there are so many ideas from a different point of view leads to conflict in selecting the best one or sometimes by the opinion given by the favor person may value more even if it will not worked to change into practice.