System Thinking 201

Review the Resources on systems thinking, particularly the Arnold & Wade article. Consider how you would define systems thinking.
Select a macrosystem-level transition of care (e.g., hospital to nursing home, skilled nursing facility to home care) to use for this Discussion.
Review the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) resources, familiarizing yourself with the Quadruple Aim.
Describe systems thinking in your own words. Briefly describe the macrosystem-level transition of care you selected. Identify two points of care across the care continuum present at this transition and briefly describe two strategies/inventions that nurse leaders could implement to align interventions for safe, quality transitions of care with the IHI Quadruple Aim. Be specific and provide examples.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

The healthcare field is diverse and at times complex. In the constantly changing healthcare environment where different healthcare dynamics are always interacting in counter-intuitive processes, it is critical to underscore how health policies may help to streamline different aspects of healthcare. According to WHO, policy makers and funders have a duty to advance healthcare principles of equity, universal access to care and people-centered healthcare delivery (Trbovich, 2014). To decode the complexity of healthcare system and guarantee provision of quality care, systems thinking is key as demonstrated in this task.
Definition of Systems Thinking
Systems thinking refers to the process by which decision makers critically evaluate the implications of a healthcare decision before the decision itself is made. Systems thinking advocates for analyzing decisions on a wider perspective, incorporating the possible long-term implications, the costs involved and the people affected before the decision is made. In healthcare, systems thinking can help to decode the complexity and…