Your organization has made a decision to implement TCAB in your hospital. As a manager, what strategies would you use to implement TCAB? (Select all that apply.)
a. Encourage recognition among staff of their knowledge of the patient-care envi-ronment.
b. With staff, select small changes for con-sideration.
c. Select only projects that have widespread impact.
d. Secure external advisors to evaluate in-novation.
e. Present ideas based on best practices and ask staff for advice on implementation.
A, B, E
Transforming care at the bedside (TCAB) relies on active involvement of staff in the generation of innovative ideas to improve patient care. Staff are actively engaged in selecting innovation, planning, and evaluation of the innovations. Critical to practice changes, rapid cycle change is a process that encourages testing creative change on a small scale while determining potential im-pact.
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