Sue Butts, Improvement Advisor, Butts-Dion Consulting, Inc. Mary Dolansky, RN, PhD, Associate Professor, Louis Stokes VA Medical Center Chris Grant, MD, Health Foundation & IHI Fellow/Consultant in Critical Care, Aintree University Hospital Holly Oh, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Dimock Community Health Center David Williams, Ph.D., Executive Director, Institute for Healthcare Improvement QI 201: Planning for Spread: From Local Improvements to System-Wide Change Previous courses in the Quality Improvement catalog focused on testing and implementing a change in one location. This advanced course is about the next logical step: spreading the change. You’ll learn about the theory of how change spreads, according to the foundational work of psychologist Kurt Lewin and sociologist Everett Rogers. Then you’ll how to help a new idea spread across a population, both by motivating the people within the population to adopt the change and by developing new ideas that are inherently more likely to spread. Finally, we’ll introduce IHI’s Framework for Spread, and you’ll follow a detailed case study about how an organization used the methodologies you’re studying to improve patient care at the bedside throughout Central Texas. Estimated Time of Completion: 1 hour 15 minutes Lessons Lesson 1: How Change Spreads Lesson 2: Tactics for Spreading Change Lesson 3: Case Study in Spreading Innovations: Transforming Care at the Bedside Course Objectives completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Describe how change spreads according to Kurt Lewin and Everett Rogers. 2. Assess the likelihood that a new idea will spread. 3. Apply IHI’s Framework for Spread to spread an innovation across an organization. Contributors Author(s):
Sue Butts, Improvement Advisor, Butts-Dion Consulting, Inc. Mary Dolansky, RN, PhD, Associate Professor, Louis Stokes VA Medical Center Chris Grant, MD, Health Foundation & IHI Fellow/Consultant in Critical Care, Aintree University Hospital Holly Oh, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Dimock Community Health Center David Williams, Ph.D., Executive Director, Institute for Healthcare Improvement QI 201: Planning for Spread: From Local Improvements to System-Wide Change Previous courses in the Quality Improvement catalog focused on testing and implementing a change in one location. This advanced course is about the next logical step: spreading the change. You’ll learn about the theory of how change spreads, according to the foundational work of psychologist Kurt Lewin and sociologist Everett Rogers. Then you’ll how to help a new idea spread across a population, both by motivating the people within the population to adopt the change and by developing new ideas that are inherently more likely to spread. Finally, we’ll introduce IHI’s Framework for Spread, and you’ll follow a detailed case study about how an organization used the methodologies you’re studying to improve patient care at the bedside throughout Central Texas. Estimated Time of Completion: 1 hour 15 minutes Lessons Lesson 1: How Change Spreads Lesson 2: Tactics for Spreading Change Lesson 3: Case Study in Spreading Innovations: Transforming Care at the Bedside Course Objectives completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Describe how change spreads according to Kurt Lewin and Everett Rogers. 2. Assess the likelihood that a new idea will spread. 3. Apply IHI’s Framework for Spread to spread an innovation across an organization. Contributors Author(s):