Flow Physics 105: Holding the System

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Part of When Beds Don’t Move: The Course, six Flow Physics modules of patient flow training for hospital leaders.

Module 5 of When Beds Don't Move: The Course. Learn to see the hospital as one system and to protect its timing day after day: why hospitals drift long before they fail, how to read timing instead of department outcomes, why one well-placed question beats a new project, how leadership discipline differs from control, and the four steps by which discipline erodes. 1.5 CE hours. Counts toward CHTI and CPTMP renewal.

This module is built from Donald Sipp's book When Beds Don't Move, which reached #1 in Hospital Administration and Care on Amazon. The book is not required to take the course.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Why hospitals drift long before they fail, and why department reports hide it
  • How to read the hospital as a system with timing questions instead of status questions
  • How one early, upstream question can correct a pattern without launching a project
  • How leadership discipline differs from control, and where it actually lives
  • The four steps by which discipline erodes, and how to stop the first one

Course Content

Flow Physics 105: Holding the System
Six lessons on seeing the hospital as one system and on the leadership discipline that keeps it aligned: how drift hides, how to read timing instead of outcomes, and how discipline erodes.

  • Hospitals Drift Before They Fail
  • Reading the Hospital as a System
  • One Question, Not a Project
  • Discipline Is Not Control
  • Discipline at Each Engine, and How It Erodes
  • Practice Lab: The Morning Timing Round
  • Flow Physics 105 Knowledge Check

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