The State Of Productivity In Acute Care: What Is Our Value

Show Notes

Today’s Guest: Dr. Brigid Griffin, PT, DPT.

Dr. Griffin is a physical therapist at a large midwest pediatric hospital. She spends part of her time treating in the pediatric intensive care unit and part time assisting throughout other units.

Email: brigidcgriffin@gmail.com

Episode Takeaways

Everyone is frustrated with productivity
Learn more about the Therapy Value Quotient
The value acute care clinicians bring is multi-faceted and thus hard to measure

Guest Quotes:

“ it was born from frustration and then asking lots of questions and looking for, you know, what, what else can we do? How else can we measure this? Since how we measure our productivity right now has nothing to actually do with how well of a therapist you are, how, how well your patients do afterwards and what your outcomes are.”

“So I feel like there is a lot of things that we do add value to, but there’s, there’s a limited number of things that we can measure and say, this is what physical therapy did…”

“most of the time things that they’re doing is either treating patients or doing indirect patient care that has to be done to treat patients… time that I’m not productive on paper, I am actually doing all these other things that need to be done for the patient.”

Rapid Responses

Would you rather fight 100 duck sized horses or one horse size duck?

“I love this question. . The duck sized horses for sure”

You know you work in acute care when…

“When you have to keep extra clothes at your desk, because you, you will either get peed, pooped on, puked on any of the above secretions from a human in any given day.”

Links:

https://www.apta.org/your-career/career-advancement/leadership-development/apta-association-leadership-scholars-program

https://learningcenter.apta.org/products/productivity-vs-value-why-we-need-to-change-the-discussion-and-how-you-can#tab-product_tab_overview

https://www.apta.org/patient-care/evidence-based-practice-resources/test-measures/activity-measure-for-post-acute-care-am-pac–6-clicks-inpatient-short-forms

https://journals.lww.com/jacpt/Fulltext/2015/08000/Capturing_the_Unmeasured_Value_Acute_Care_Physical.1.aspx

https://journals.lww.com/pedpt/fulltext/2020/01000/therapy_workloads_in_pediatric_health__preliminary.12.aspx

https://leanagiletraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/knowledge_workers_the_biggest_challenge.pdf

https://journals.lww.com/jacpt/Abstract/2016/04000/Changing_the_Culture_of_a_Large_Multihospital.2.aspx

https://journals.lww.com/jacpt/Abstract/2019/07000/Improving_Operational_Efficiency,_Effectiveness,.5.aspx

https://journals.lww.com/jacpt/Abstract/2018/10000/A_Simple_Tool_Using_AM_PAC__6_Clicks__to_Measure.3.aspx

https://www.asha.org/siteassets/uploadedfiles/aota-apta-asha-consensus-statement.pdf

https://www.apta.org/your-practice/productivity