What PE Teachers and PEX Professionals Have in Common

Presented by Shawna Forst, Performance Excellence, Quality & Risk Coordinator at MercyOne Newton Medical Center

What do physical education teachers and performance excellence professionals have in common? More than you think! This session will feature one former P.E. Teacher's perspective on the similarities between coaching kids and leading quality and improvement efforts in the workplace while also sharing how to leverage KaiNexus to support and encourage those endeavors.

In this webinar, you'll learn:

To explore the basic fundamentals of being an effective coach, regardless of field.
To identify how KaiNexus can be leveraged in being an effective coach.
To understand how Lean methodology, leveraging KaiNexus, can help eliminate waste, build teamwork, reduce conflicts, reduce or eliminate defects, create IDEAL processes, services, and products as well as improve client satisfaction.

About the Presenter:
Shawna Forst

Shawna is the Performance Excellence Quality & Risk Coordinator and Lean Healthcare Coach at MercyOne Newton Medical Center. Shawna has been a Lean Healthcare facilitator since January 2007 and has two years of experience as a technician in a cardiac unit. Since then, she has had various roles in Healthcare Quality and Safety. Shawna graduated from Simpson College in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts in Physical Education and a Coaching Endorsement. In 2010, she became a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) and received her LEAN Green Belt certification in 2014. She also received her Masters in Business Administration from Western Governors University in 2018.

1. What PE Teachers and
PEX Professionals
Have in Common
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Presenter: Shawna Forst
MercyOne
Newton Medical Center
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Host: Mark Graban
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4. About Shawna Forst
•MercyOne Newton Medical Center
•Performance Excellence, Quality & Risk Coordinator
•Lean Healthcare Coach
•Various roles in Healthcare Quality and Safety
•Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ)
•LEAN Green Belt certification
•BA in Physical Education, Simpson College
•MBA, Western Governors University

5. What PE Teachers and
PEX Professionals
Have in Common
Shawna Forst, Performance Excellence, Quality & Risk
Management Coordinator
MercyOne Newton Medical Center, Newton, Iowa

6. PE to PEX
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Simpson College
•BA Physical
Education
•Coaching
Endorsement
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Teacher Associate
•Behavioral
health and
severe/profound
students
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Pella Regional
Health Center -
Pella, IA
•Cardiac Tech
•LEAN Coach
•Quality/safety
roles for 15 years
3
Middle School PE
•6, 7, & 8th grade
•+800 students
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MercyOne Newton
Medical Center -
Newton, IA
•Quality Lead
•Chair – Iowa
Rural owned &
affiliated
MercyOne
quality team

7. Red Light, Green Light
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9. Hey Coach!
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•Use of system to on-board colleagues
•Gamification – badges
•Colleague recognition / Rounding
•Email reminders
•Timeline management – due dates, daily
digest, timeline
•Leadership engagement on team's work

10. 80 Kids in a Gym
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11. KaiNexus Workflows
KaiNexus houses for us these activities:
•Rounding (huddle, colleague, patients)
•Improvement Ideas
•Service Recovery
•Projects
•QAPIs
•Key Results
•Strategic Plan
•On-boarding managers/leads
•Colleague recognition tracking
•New hire 90-day follow up
•Regulatory survey activity preparation
•Monthly manager tasks
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13. The Odd Bunch
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14. The Red-Headed Stepchild
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15. Let's see why your kid is failing gym.
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16. "He's always good for me."
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17. Healthy Communities
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Host: Mark Graban
Senior Advisor, KaiNexus
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Presenter: Shawna Forst
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