That has to be done in order to achieve a test.
And oftentimes, people get confused between a task and a test.
The test is going to be taking the form and applying it to a patient.
So now, this form has check boxes.
It has pharmacy,
it has discharge planning instructions, education, other things that are needed.
Now we're gonna do it.
That is, on next Monday, we're going to get one of the discharge planning nurses,
Tom, to take this form and apply it to three patients.
We're not gonna do it on all 50 patients.
We're not gonna do it on the whole hospital.
We're gonna start out with a small test, three patients.
Tom's gonna take the form and use it with these three patients.
We're gonna get feedback then.
We're gonna study, and Tom is gonna come back.
And we're gonna get feedback from Tom on whether or not the form worked.
Were things easy to fill out?
Did he have to look all over the place?
Did the flow of information work well?
So Tom's gonna give us feedback.
Then we're also gonna get feedback by keeping track of the percent of
patients discharged by 11 o'clock.
And we're gonna keep this little run chart to look at our progress over time and
as we do more tests, we're gonna accumulate more data and eventually,
we'll be able to see if in fact this form and what goes with it is actually
improving the percent of patients that get discharged less than 11 AM.
Then we're going to act.
We're gonna take the feedback from Tom and from our data, and then we're going to
think about the next test with more patients maybe on a different unit.
Maybe now, we're gonna take it instead of just from 3 west.
We're gonna take it and apply it to all med search floors.
Now, when we've tested under different conditions, and we're now accumulating,
we've tested it with 3, 5, 10,
15 patients, at some point after we've tested, under different conditions,
we're gonna be ready to move to the next phase, which is to implement.