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Official role for checklists in healthcare: save lives! True role of checklists in healthcare: save management in case of legal action. Consequence: the check
by rscho 7y ago
Official role for checklists in healthcare: save lives!
True role of checklists in healthcare: save management in case of legal action.
Consequence: the checklist becomes longer and longer, and is done more and more frequently. To the point of being quite impractical.
Goal: in case of legal action, take refuge in checklists. At least one of the items is bound to be missing so you can divert responsibility to someone else.
Source: I do checklists. That's my job.
- tonyarkles 7y agoI replied elsewhere in the thread with a bit more detail, but my UAV checklists contain 100% material learned from experience only. They've grown a little (especially the packing list) as I've gotten out to the field and realized I didn't have a tool that would be useful to have, but they've also shrunk as I've eliminated equipment I no longer need (e.g. a programming cable for an ESC that I no longer use). It's pretty disappointing to hear that that's how checklists work in your org. I feel like it's doubly negative: not only does it pretty much guarantee that they won't be followed because they're not particularly useful in that form; it also helps to ensure that the folks that have to use them will push back against checklists in general at their next job! [I suppose that's what happened with me and JIRA too... it might be a decent product, but every org I've used it in has done a very bad job with it]
- baud147258 7y agoI think our boss has made a good job with our bug workflow, but she had the authority (and Jira access) to do what she (and the QA lead) wanted.
- lonelappde 7y agoThis is like Agile vs micromanagement in software dev. The workaround for that is for the practicioners to have their own good checklists in addition.