Our Interest in Interprofessional Practice and Education:
We are an approach to change management that blends a focus on technical skills, sociocultural change, and the ability to lead through complexity. We believe that all are necessary in order to create the conditions for the innovation and learning required to move the needle on our most intractable challenges. We also believe that, for many of our challenges, the solutions may already exist from within our organizations and communities. Using a positive deviance framework can discover those solutions that are "hiding in plain sight." Interprofessional practice based on meaningful relationships is a necessary condition for supporting the adaptive change work that Plexus Institute is about.
Signature Programs and Activities:
The Plexus Institute Positive Deviance Improvement Approach has been field-tested in over two dozen organizations. Beneficial outcomes have been seen in the challenges of healthcare-associated infections, medication safety, pain management, and palliative care. You will tap into the wisdom that has been "hiding in plain sight” that can be converted into sustainable solutions for a wide array of challenges today’s healthcare organizations face.
Plexus Institute Liberating Structures (LS) workshops are interactive ½ to 2 day events that help people working to improve patient safety and healthcare quality outcomes acquire adaptive skills that can be immediately applied to the challenges they face. LS change the ways people interact and think, leading to an environment where innovation flourishes and effective actions emerge.
The Plexus Institute Complexity Lens workshop is crafted to help today’s healthcare leaders see the complexity they and their organizations face. Recognizing complexity is the first step towards the learning and adaptation associated with organizations able to thrive in today’s world of interconnections and interdependencies.