Healthcare Workplaces

Graham Lowe’s keynote at the Quality Worklife – Quality Healthcare Collaborative’s 3rd annual Summit, March 2009, explores what energizes a : people-performance-quality chain in healthcare. He shows how innovation, renewal and sustainability in healthcare depend on all of us doing a better job leveraging the dynamics of quality. Drawing on evidence and successful practices from […]

Graham Lowe’s keynote at the Quality Worklife – Quality Healthcare Collaborative’s 3rd annual Summit, March 2009, explores what energizes a : people-performance-quality chain in healthcare. He shows how innovation, renewal and sustainability in healthcare depend on all of us doing a better job leveraging the dynamics of quality. Drawing on evidence and successful practices from […]

Graham Lowe’s PowerPoint presentation for the Accreditation Canada webinar on safety culture, 15 January 2009.

Accreditation Canada sponsors a 90 minute webinar by Graham Lowe. 11:00 a.m. (EST), January 15th, 2009. Cost: $99. Who should attend?: Anyone directly involved in a quality or safety initiative through committees or as part of their role as quality managers, HR representatives or workplace health and safety representatives and frontline supervisors and/or managers who […]

Graham Lowe's feature article in the current issue of Healthcare Quarterly examines the role of healthcare work-environment factors in creating a culture of safety. In the first study of its kind undertaken in Canada, Lowe uses survey evidence from allied health professional and technical workers in Alberta to assess the links between working conditions and […]

Keynote presentation at the 2nd annual WINN (Workplace Integration of New Nurses) Symposium. Vancouver, 2 December 2006. For information visit: www.winnvancouver.org

Creating Healthy Health Care Workplaces in British Columbia: Evidence for Action. A DISCUSSION PAPER Prepared for the Provincial Health Services Authority. KEY MESSAGES There is a business case for investing in healthier work environments within health care. Furthermore, there are substantial costs to inaction. Return on investment (ROI) analyses has been used to evaluate workplace […]

Creating a Quality Work Environment RESULTS FROM THE HSAA 2006 WORK ENVIRONMENT SURVEY The Health Sciences Association of Alberta (HSAA) conducted a Work Environment Survey to provide new evidence that can be used constructively to improve the work environments of HSAA members, and through this, contribute to health service excellence in Alberta. The 74-page report, […]

RNAO Creating Healthy Work Places Summer Institute, 2006. Graham Lowe will be making presentations and facilitating workshops at the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario’s 2006 Summer Institute. Topics include: “Strategic planning framework for workplace revitalization” and “Creating Healthy Work Environments.” Pinestone Inn, Haliburton, Ontario. June 5 and 6, 2006.

Across the country, nurses and other front-line health system workers are taking actions to improve the quality of their work environment. A high quality work environment is being accepted, albeit slowly, as a prerequisite for building the human resource capacity needed to sustain the health system. As more time and money are invested in trying […]