A nurse is not a nurse…
… , a nursing unit is not a nursing unit, and an IV pump is not an IV pump. Last Wednesday, I used this quote in my presentation at the RSD15 conference (Relating Systems Thinking…
“Writing is thinking made visible”
I send myself links to materials I want to read and then the links stack in my inbox like the unread books in the living room. For every book I read, I add another two.…
Not one duckling
Every year, we ask our minor students to build a LEGO duckling. It’s a well-known exercise from LEGO Serious Play, designed to showcase the different interpretations and visualisations of a duck. We emphasise the importance…
I spy with my little eye…
How do you see the world? Or, to put it another way, through what lens? The same world appears different. Seen differently, interpreted differently, imagined differently. Even with the same eyes, we have a different…
Eventually Everything Connects by Sarah Firth
Sarah Firth’s bundle of Eight Essays on Uncertainty is a collection of visualised overthinking of normal life’s situations. To me, the essays feels like a good representation of a systems thinker’s thoughts. The deliberations to…
Neutral data?
‘Data is neutral’, posted someone on social media in 2022. It triggered a conversation, which I was just reminded of. One example was the Exif data of a photo. Data without any interpretation could be…
Revenge of the tipping point by Malcolm Gladwell
In Gladwell’s stories of ‘sudden’ crime, epidemic, death, segregation always lies a hint of hope. It is in the description of the ‘Law of the Few’, where just a tiny fraction of men tipped a…
Learn to dance
As a systems thinker, one skill you apparently need is to learn to dance. This could be based on the insights of Donella Meadows, who encourages us to think with systems, or based on ideas…
Eureka, I am a systems thinker!
The connections just appeared to me and how everything was related. Eureka, everything made sense. I found the answer on the question why nurses won’t get what they need. I tried to explain it the…
So this is the blog section?
Cool, a happy blog text. Nope…not functioning yet. Yes, it is finally functioning…and I’ll leave this just for now…
‘This nurse is working properly’
Yesterday my computer decided not to charge the battery. A message: “not charging”. It stayed at 22% when plugged in. I checked the power cable. Everything connected perfectly. So why? I had been on vacation…
Nurseproof
I read an article about an incident at a hospital where it said: ‘ through inattentiveness by nurses …’ they were able to connect the wrong valve. Even thought there were ‘clear identifiable differences’. They…