After this session you’ll be able to:

1. Understand the basic principles to apply LEAN Processes (Toyota Production System®) to healthcare.
2. Explain the role of shared expectations between anesthesia, surgeons, and nurses to improve accountability, operational efficiency, and interprofessional relationships.
3. Identify the barriers to communication between pre-, inter-, and postoperative nurses to identify solutions to prevent failures.

Why this is important:

We all face the same challenge in managing our surgical suite: How can we change behaviors to refocus the perspective of team members and ancillary services to achieve a common goal? Nurse and physician leaders from Vanderbilt University Medical Center will guide you through a team-based approach to improving first case on-time starts (FCOTS). As they share their journey of process improvement, from initial planning to getting buy-in from C-suite executives, surgeons, anesthesia providers, and nurses, they will provide tools for implementing and monitoring the change process, as well as improving team-based communication and developing a “One Team” philosophy.