Hello and welcome, welcome, students, faculty and alum of the MH I program.
This is my brief overview of the culmination project I did for graduation
in 2013, I chose to focus on integrating behavioral health ideals with
techniques in chronic settings, specifically in physical pain management.
I want to read to you from the written portion of the project as we go
along through the map to give you a better overall picture. So here is the
introduction, health care in the United States consistently struggles to
reduce costs and improve efficiency. There is an ongoing effort to extend
services for coverage of low income and underinsured people. Policy on
this issue is concerned with improving the efficiency of the practitioners
and the technology used. However, moving forward towards prevention care
and education will be more effective in reducing costs by reducing
preventable illness prevention care will also reduce risks of disease and
empower patients to take responsibility of their personal health. In order
to accomplish this, the language and communication styles of health care
need to be changed. Two emerging cultures that demonstrate this new
language and communication style can be tools in solving complex issues.
In health care. One is a communication technique called motivational
interviewing and the other is a communication style called innovation
leadership. Those two principles have gone on to create the idea or the
cornerstone of my culmination project. And we'll go through a little bit
more of that as we go along here.
I'm calling this slide the role of innovation because in the MH I, that's
what we're doing. We're looking for new solutions to old problems and it
takes looking at the old problems and the solutions in way different ways.
You need to see two or more sides of any solution to really get to the
bottom of the innovation. How are we going to do this differently? And so
in my project, I chose to focus on recognizing the deficits finding out
what, what is the, what's lacking? Um I try to look at the true needs of
the patient, getting down to what we're actually trying to change one of
the variables and the outcomes we're trying to change. I wanted to use
evidence based practices and create multidimensional thinking. Uh We
wanted to use research, collaboration, prototypes, dreams, experiments,
things that can be molded and changed over and over again to find those
big ideas that you want to design the proposal on. So innovation was a big
part of this. That's why it's the first part here. And I think that's
where you spend most of your time doing your groundwork.
This line is a little bit messy but you can see the a couple other
components of the mind map outcomes, finances technology evidence. And
this is really the implementation. This is how are you going to get your
innovative idea to be a reality? And so having those, those processes in
finances and technology and evidence will help you to begin the process of
making this something that you can take to a business or take to a health
care system and propose what it is they can change. For me, it was
measuring how motivational interviewing and innovative leadership can it
truly make positive outcomes in pain management.
The last part of my mind map was
policy and leadership. And to me this is where you make it successful for
the long term, you have to have those written policies and the change in
policy to support your innovation so that when it does get implemented, it
ends up being implemented for a long time. And the leadership portion of
that really is important for the change management strategies and having
that leadership roles and responsibilities already mapped out will help
make things run a little smoother. Everyone kind of knows what their role
is going forward and they're able to go forward confidently being able to
make those changes and continue to implement them and explain them to
their uh the other people involved, all the other stakeholders. And so
policy and leadership, the end of the mind map really important for long
term success.
In conclusion, health care will benefit from leaders that can stand up to
the consistently changing technology, the influx of diseases, the chaos of
the field environment and the complexity of patients. Still, while being
forward thinking, health care, stakeholders need to be led to action and
responsibility for that piece of solution. Patients need to contribute to
decreasing costs and disease by making better personal health choices.
These action points require adaptability, collaboration, middle pack
leadership and two sided inclusive communication styles. Things like
motivational interviewing and further research should be done to to
definitely correlate motivational interviewing and innovative leadership
styles to better patient outcomes. So thank you guys so much for watching.
Good luck and happy innovating in your own projects.