The Science of Caring
by Dr. John Nelson
Welcome! Dr. John Nelson reveals how science, mathematics, data, and analytics can be used to tell meaningful stories and the steps you can take in your organization to improve your work environment and the outcomes of your patients. This podcast is for clinicians, operations, executives, and technologists seeking to advance their career and make a difference in healthcare.Dr. Nelson's experience includes work in 46 countries and with over 400 organizations. He is recognized as an expert and leader in the caring sciences, is the President and Founder of Healthcare Environment, and is passionate about improving healthcare for all.
Episodes
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The Importance of Caring Frameworks and Accurate and Relevant Measurement in a Large Healthcare System
The three guests from this video review their measuring and implementing concepts of caring science in a large healthcare system in the United States. All three guests are leaders in nursing who worked on this 11-hospital project together. Dr. Gay Landstrom reviews the system of Trinity Health…
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What is True Predictive Analytics
Predictive analytics are key to improving healthcare outcomes, identifying what things relate to or even predict and outcome of interest such as falls, infections, length of hospital stay, and so on. The term “predictive analytics” is a “hot” trend in healthcare today, but often misunderstood or,...
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Creating a Strategy for Success in Healthcare Leadership - Part 2
In this second part on leadership strategy, your host, John Nelson, continues the conversation with Kay Kennedy and Lucy Leclerc from uLeadership. They discuss how having a measure that is specified for the content being taught, which in this case is leadership, creates a greater likelihood that...
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Creating a Strategy for Success in Healthcare Leadership
This is part 1 of a 2 episode podcast on Human Centered Leadership. In this session, Kay Kennedy and Lucy Leclerc, from uLeadership, review a framework of leadership that is relationship centered. They review the theory and measurement of this unique leadership training program. Traditional...
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Why We Wrote Another Healthcare Book
In this episode, Dr. John Nelson, along with his co-editors Mary Ann Hozak and Jayne Felgen, discuss why they wrote the 2021 book Using Predictive Analytics to Improve Healthcare Outcomes. They discuss how they leveraged the story told by staff to create context specified measurement models which...
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How Healthcare Professionals Can Better Understand Patient Pain and Improve the Patient Experience - Part 2
In this second session with Dr. Tara Nichols, John and Tara discuss the physiology and theories of both pain and comfort. What is the best way to decrease pain and increase comfort? How can measures of pain, comfort, and the context of the environment and context help inform what needs to be...
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How Healthcare Professionals Can Better Understand Patient Pain and Improve the Patient Experience
Dr. John Nelson and his guest, Dr. Tara Nichols, discuss the problems with how pain is commonly assessed in diagnosing patients, and the problems that occur as a result. Dr. Nichols provides practical insights in how professionals can better understand the pain and discomfort of patients, and the...
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Advancing the Measurement of Caring with Dr. Zane Wolf and John Nelson
In this episode, Dr. John Nelson welcomes his colleague, Dr. Zane Wolf, Dean Emerita and Professor at La Salle University. Dr. Wolf was recently recognized in Stanford’s ranking of worldwide academics as in the top 2% of over 7 million scientists around the world. Her work in caring science...
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Caring Science in the Context of China
Your host, Dr. John Nelson, and his colleague, Dr. Dawna Cato, discuss their caring science research with nurses in China. Dawna, who serves as CEO of the Arizona Nurses Association, worked for three years in China with a healthcare organization. In the international research work, nurses in…
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Measurement that Informs Using Validity, Reliability, and Invariance Testing
In healthcare conversations, the "popular" topic of predictive analytics is often discussed, but infrequently is it understood. Without doubt, significant value can be realized using predictive analytics, but only if all the essential components are present. One of these critical components is...
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Understanding Return on Investment for Your Healthcare Quality Initiatives
Return on Investment is frequently mentioned in operations, but putting it into practice can be challenging. John Nelson and Craig Solid – author of "Return on Investment for Healthcare Quality Improvement" – discuss the practical aspects of defining ROI and how to use it for informed...
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The Science of Self-Care for Nursing
Dr. John Nelson, in recognition of International Nurses Day on May 12, discusses the dimension of Caring for Self from the Profile of Caring Instrument. Caring is not an emotion, it is an intention, and extremely important for nurses to enact for their own well being.
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Studying the Profile of Caring in Slovenia
In this conversation with Dr. John Nelson and his colleague in Slovenia, Dominika Vrbnjak (PhD, RN, Assistant Professor at University of Maribor, Faculty of Health Sciences), they discuss Profile of Caring research that was conducted across eight different countries.
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John Nelson and Marie Manthey Explore the Model of Primary Nursing
In this session, Dr. John Nelson and Marie Manthey explore the topic of Primary Nursing. During his eleven years as a staff nurse, John worked with Marie (one of the originators of this model of care delivery) and other experts to develop an accurate measure to understand the impact Primary…
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How We Reduced Falls with Culture Change and Accurate Analytics
Dr. John Nelson and his colleague, Lance Podsiad, discuss how data became relevant and exciting to the staff, and the process of drastically reducing the number of falls by engaging the staff, development a context-specific model, and using advanced mathematics.
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Measuring the Impact of an International Framework of Care
John Nelson hosts this session with Dr. Susan Smith, an international leader in frameworks of care.
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Welcome to the Caring Science International Collaborative
Join Dr. John Nelson as he presents research conducted by the Caring Science International Collaborative. This episode captures the recent conversation he had with his international colleagues in Canada, China, Columbia, Croatia, Israel, Jamaica, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey.…
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Understanding Role Clarity with Precise Measurement
Dr. Nelson and his guest, Enderson Miranda, the CEO of OnSomble, discuss the critical components of role clarity and competency. Incomplete and inaccurate assumptions about aspects of roles frequently govern the provision of care, significantly increasing risks to patients and clinicians.…
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Elevating the Science of Caring with John Nelson
In this launch episode of the The Caring of Science podcast, John Nelson reveals essential components of approaching caring as a science, and discusses important concepts including theory, model development, predictive analytics, and scientific rigor. He highlights actual research he has…
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About this show
Welcome! Dr. John Nelson reveals how science, mathematics, data, and analytics can be used to tell meaningful stories and the steps you can take in your organization to improve your work environment and the outcomes of your patients. This podcast is for clinicians, operations, executives, and technologists seeking to advance their career and make a difference in healthcare.Dr. Nelson's experience includes work in 46 countries and with over 400 organizations. He is recognized as an expert and leader in the caring sciences, is the President and Founder of Healthcare Environment, and is passionate about improving healthcare for all.
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