How Long to Read Resilient Health Care, Volume 2

How Long Does it Take to Read Resilient Health Care, Volume 2?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 1 minute to read Resilient Health Care, Volume 2 by Robert L. Wears

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Health systems everywhere are expected to meet increasing public and political demands for accessible, high-quality care. Policy-makers, managers, and clinicians use their best efforts to improve efficiency, safety, quality, and economic viability. One solution has been to mimic approaches that have been shown to work in other domains, such as quality management, lean production, and high reliability. In the enthusiasm for such solutions, scant attention has been paid to the fact that health care as a multifaceted system differs significantly from most traditional industries. Solutions based on linear thinking in engineered systems do not work well in complicated, multi-stakeholder non-engineered systems, of which health care is a leading example. A prerequisite for improving health care and making it more resilient is that the nature of everyday clinical work be well understood. Yet the focus of the majority of policy or management solutions, as well as that of accreditation and regulation, is work as it ought to be (also known as ’work-as-imagined’). The aim of policy-makers and managers, whether the priority is safety, quality, or efficiency, is therefore to make everyday clinical work - or work-as-done - comply with work-as-imagined. This fails to recognise that this normative conception of work is often oversimplified, incomplete, and outdated. There is therefore an urgent need to better understand everyday clinical work as it is done. Despite the common focus on deviations and failures, it is undeniable that clinical work goes right far more often than it goes wrong, and that we only can make it better if we understand how this happens. This second volume of Resilient Health Care continues the line of thinking of the first book, but takes it further through a range of chapters from leading international thinkers on resilience and health care. Where the first book provided the rationale and basic concepts of RHC, the Resilience of Everyday Clinical Work b

How long is Resilient Health Care, Volume 2?

Resilient Health Care, Volume 2 by Robert L. Wears is 349 pages long, and a total of 90,391 words.

This makes it 118% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Resilient Health Care, Volume 2 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 13 minutes to read Resilient Health Care, Volume 2 aloud.

What Reading Level is Resilient Health Care, Volume 2?

Resilient Health Care, Volume 2 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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