Using Co-Design to Develop a Collective Leadership Intervention for Healthcare Teams to Improve Safety Culture

Marie E. Ward, Aoife De Brún, Deirdre Beirne, Clare Conway, Una Cunningham, Alan English, John Fitzsimons, Eileen Furlong, Yvonne Kane, Alan Kelly, Sinéad McDonnell, Sinead McGinley, Brenda Monaghan, Ann Myler, Emer Nolan, Róisín O’Donovan, Marie O’Shea, Arwa Shuhaiber and Eilish McAuliffe
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Marie E. Ward: School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Aoife De Brún: School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Deirdre Beirne: Integrated Care Team Older Persons, Community Healthcare Organisation 6, Clonskeagh, Dublin 6, Ireland
Clare Conway: Midlands Regional Hospital Mullingar, Longford Road, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland
Una Cunningham: Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Eccles St, Dublin 7, Ireland
Alan English: Patient Representative, Dublin, Ireland
John Fitzsimons: Quality Improvement Division HSE & Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland
Eileen Furlong: School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Yvonne Kane: Midlands Regional Hospital Mullingar, Longford Road, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland
Alan Kelly: Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Eccles St, Dublin 7, Ireland
Sinéad McDonnell: Integrated Care Team Older Persons, Community Healthcare Organisation 6, Clonskeagh, Dublin 6, Ireland
Sinead McGinley: School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Brenda Monaghan: Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland
Ann Myler: Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Eccles St, Dublin 7, Ireland
Emer Nolan: Integrated Care Team Older Persons, Community Healthcare Organisation 6, Clonskeagh, Dublin 6, Ireland
Róisín O’Donovan: School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Marie O’Shea: School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Arwa Shuhaiber: School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
Eilish McAuliffe: School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

IJERPH, 2018, vol. 15, issue 6, 1-17

Abstract: While co-design methods are becoming more popular in healthcare; there is a gap within the peer-reviewed literature on how to do co-design in practice. This paper addresses this gap by delineating the approach taken in the co-design of a collective leadership intervention to improve healthcare team performance and patient safety culture. Over the course of six workshops healthcare staff, patient representatives and advocates, and health systems researchers collaboratively co-designed the intervention. The inputs to the process, exercises and activities that took place during the workshops and the outputs of the workshops are described. The co-design method, while challenging at times, had many benefits including grounding the intervention in the real-world experiences of healthcare teams. Implications of the method for health systems research are discussed.

Keywords: co-design; co-production; collective leadership; team performance; safety culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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