Games to Improve Clinical Practice and Healthcare Administration
Leadership at all levels of a healthcare organization plays a central role in patient safety, yet few evidence-based interventions exist to meet this critical function. Simulation and gaming have demonstrated improvement in technical and non-technical competencies of healthcare workers, as well as organizational learning and continuous improvement but has not been broadly applied to the patient safety.
Our research developed, implemented and evaluated a gaming application for building safety related leadership competencies along with strategy development for executive and mid-level healthcare leaders.
Specifically, the work addressed two broad questions: 1) is a gaming application more effective than traditional methods of instruction for improving patient safety leadership competencies, and 2) what makes gaming most effective as a strategy generation tool for patient safety leadership?
Our project assembled a multi-disciplinary team (simulation, training, gaming, engineering, patient safety leadership, business and management, social science of creativity, human factors and organizational psychology) to design, implement, and evaluate patient safety leadership development. It evaluates the impact of two practically relevant implementation factors: 1) team familiarity of participants, and 2) a mindfulness intervention designed to boost learning efficiency.
The impact of this work is broad, given a lack of existing games for leaders and the proven effectiveness of gaming in other complex skill domains.
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