Healthcare Lean Six Sigma Training

Pharmacist Learning Objectives:

By the completion of the activity, pharmacists should be better able to,

-Recognize the need and key attributes of a successful lean six sigma program in an organization.

-Describe the roles and responsibilities of a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt in a healthcare organization.

-List the fundamentals of the DMAIC problem solving methodology

-Use basic lean six sigma tools for project definition and process baseline, and improvement analysis, implementation, and sustainability.

-Define the need for advanced problem solving and improvement methodologies used by project teams

-Integrate lean six sigma knowledge and tools to successfully implement, deploy, and sustain process improvements.

Doctoral Level Psychologist Objectives:

By the completion of the activity doctoral level psychologists should be better able to,

-Apply continuous process improvement to professional practice

-Compare the differences between DMAIC and DMADV and when to use each methodology

-State an example of a push system

-Utilize root cause analysis to determine the causes of defects within a process

-Identify risk factors and areas of waste through process mapping

-Discuss 4 steps to improve patient and process flows

-Demonstrate the key concepts of Lean

-Label the elements of SIPOC

-Describe the concept of Poka‐yoke

-Apply Six Sigma tools to reduce and remove variation in the professional practice

-Explain the lean six sigma process

-List the steps in the PDSA process

-Calculate the Takt time for a given scenario

-Apply hypothesis testing by examining two opposing conjectures

-Identify ways in which a process might fail using the failure mode and effects analysis

-Apply statistical process control to correct assignable causes of variation

-Outline the benefits of the simulation process and performance improvement

-Discuss process capability and how it can be used to measure current performance and control future process performance

-Discuss the key attributes of a successful lean six sigma program in an organization

-Describe the roles and responsibilities of a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt in a healthcare organization

-List the fundamentals of the DMAIC problem solving methodology

-Apply basic lean six sigma tools for project definition and process baseline, and improvement analysis, implementation, and sustainability

-Define the need for advanced problem solving and improvement methodologies used by project teams

-Apply lean six sigma tools to successfully implement, deploy, and sustain process improvements

-Distance Learning participants should be prepared to proactively schedule their time in order to complete this offering in a timely manner.