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Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, The George Washington University Health Sciences Research Commons Teaching and Learning Tools Educational Resources 3-30-2019 Systems Thinking in the Healthcare Professions: A Guide for Educators and Clinicians Margaret M. Plack, PT, DPT, EdD George Washington University Ellen F. Goldman, EdD, MBA, George Washington University Andrea Richards Scott, EdD, MBA George Washington University Shelley B. Brundage, PhD, CCC-SLP George Washington University Follow this and additional works at: https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/ educational_resources_teaching Part of the Education Commons, and the Medical Education Commons Recommended Citation Plack, M. M., Goldman, E. F., Scott, A. R., & Brundage, S. B. (2019). Systems thinking in the healthcare professions: A guide for educators and clinicians. Washington, DC: The George Washington University. This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Educational Resources at Health Sciences Research Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Teaching and Learning Tools by an authorized administrator of Health Sciences Research Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Systems Thinking in the Healthcare Professions A GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS AND CLINICIANS Margaret M. Plack, PT, DPT, EdD, Ellen F. Goldman, EdD, MBA, Andrea Richards Scott, EdD, MBA, and Shelley B. Brundage, PhD, CCC-SLP March 30, 2019 Copyright © 2019, The George Washington University. This monograph is freely available for individual use but cannot be reproduced without permission of the authors. Contact information: Ellen F. Goldman, EdD, MBA, [email protected]. Suggested citation: Plack, M. M., Goldman, E. F., Scott, A. R., & Brundage, S. B. (2019). Systems thinking in the healthcare professions: A guide for educators and clinicians. Washington, DC: The George Washington University. ii Table of Contents List of Figures ................................................................................................................................. v List of Tables ................................................................................................................................ vii Introduction .................................................................................................................................. ix Chapter 1: Understanding Systems Thinking ............................................................................ 1 Origins and Applications of Systems Thinking ......................................................................... 2 Characteristics of Systems and Relevance to Systems-Based Practice ..................................... 3 Requirements for Applying Systems Thinking and Being a Systems Thinker .......................... 4 Summary .................................................................................................................................... 5 Chapter 2: Teaching Systems Thinking ...................................................................................... 8 Theoretical/Pedagogical Underpinnings .................................................................................... 8 Andragogy ............................................................................................................................. 8 Communities of Practice ....................................................................................................... 9 Reflective Practice ................................................................................................................. 9 Approaches to Teaching ........................................................................................................... 12 Summary .................................................................................................................................. 20 Chapter 3: Tools to Define and Describe the System .............................................................. 22 Concept Map ............................................................................................................................ 22 Fishbone Analysis Diagram ..................................................................................................... 25 Tree Diagram ........................................................................................................................... 28 Force Field Analysis ................................................................................................................ 30 Spidergram ............................................................................................................................... 33 Spider-Web Diagram ............................................................................................................... 35 Chapter 4: Tools to Analyze and Understand the System ...................................................... 37 Causal Loop Diagram .............................................................................................................. 37 Connection Circle..................................................................................................................... 41 Stakeholder Analysis ................................................................................................................ 46 Iceberg Model .......................................................................................................................... 53 Perspective Taking/Multiple Perspectives ............................................................................... 56 Left-Hand Column ................................................................................................................... 58 Chapter 5: Tools to Measure Performance .............................................................................. 61 Behavior Over Time Graph ...................................................................................................... 61 Archetypes................................................................................................................................ 63 Drifting Goals (Goals and Gaps) ......................................................................................... 63 Fixes That Fail ..................................................................................................................... 65 Limits to Success (Barriers and Facilitators) ...................................................................... 67 Chapter 6: Tools to Identify and Test Changes ....................................................................... 69 Six Thinking Hats .................................................................................................................... 69 Collaborative Problem Solving ................................................................................................ 71 iii Chapter 7: Tools for Simulation, Games, and Modeling ........................................................ 75 Simulation ................................................................................................................................ 75 Games ....................................................................................................................................... 77 Modeling .................................................................................................................................. 80 Chapter 8: Assessing Systems Thinking ................................................................................... 84 Chapter 9: Putting It All Together: Case Scenarios ................................................................ 90 Case 1. Focus on the Individual: Mr. Smith’s Discharge ........................................................ 91 Case 2. Focus on the Team: The Handoff ................................................................................ 95 Case 3. Focus on the Organization: Developing a New Unit in a Comprehensive Health System .......................................................................................................................... 98 Case 4. Focus on the Community and Society: The Opioid Crisis ........................................ 102 Summary ................................................................................................................................ 104 iv List of Figures 2.1. Interface of learning objectives and teaching strategies ....................................................18 3.1. Arranging asthma concepts ...............................................................................................22 3.2. Linking related asthma concepts .......................................................................................22 3.3. Fishbone diagram ..............................................................................................................24 3.4. Main problem or issue in the fishbone diagram ................................................................25 3.5. Categories in the fishbone diagram ...................................................................................25 3.6. Causes in the fishbone diagram ........................................................................................26 3.7. Five whys technique for root cause analysis .....................................................................26 3.8. Tree diagram: Asthma triggers .........................................................................................27 3.9. Tree diagram: Root cause .................................................................................................28