Agenda: Knowledge Sharing in Hospitals: The Librarian's Role
April 16-17, 2009
Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
| April 16, 2009 | ||
| 1:30 – 2:00 pm: | Registration and snacks | |
| 2:00 – 2:30 pm: | Welcome and logistics
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| 2:30 – 4:00 pm: | Discover phase / questions and stories This section will allow for one-on-one interviews and share insights with the group to help participants discover commonality, relate their own stories to others, build trust and develop positive images and attitudes.
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| 4:00 – 4:15 pm: | Rapid fire recap: what did we hear that was exciting? What strengths were discovered? |
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| 4:15 – 4:30 pm | Plans for tomorrow. What we’ll be up to? |
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| 6:00 – 8:00pm: | Networking Dutch treat dinner |
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| April 17, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 – 8:30 am: | How did yesterday go? |
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| 8:30 – 9:15 am | Dream phase / themes and dreams This section will help participants articulate their boldest, most provocative hopes for the future.
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| 9:15 - 10:15 am | Plan-do-study-act This section will build on the earlier introduction to the plan-do-study act quick tests of change process and explore ways librarians can work with a multidisciplinary team to identify avenues for the impact of knowledge management and sharing initiatives in their hospital. |
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| 10:15 – 10:30am | Break | |
| 10:30 – 11:30 am | Design phase: Getting started This section will foster collaborative creation of a set of aims and tactics to test ideas to drive change.
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| 11:30 – 12:15 pm | Design phase: Getting concrete This section will help the group articulate the realties of the work they envision and how its impact can be documented and translated to gain buy-in at the organizational level for the changes and the resources required to support them over time.
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| 12:30 – 2:00 pm | Working Lunch Destiny phase: a plan for action This section will use breakout groups interested in similar projects to focus on the specifics of implementing the PDSA process and to test concepts to explore a librarian’s impact in knowledge management.
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| 2:00 – 3:00 pm | Sharing thoughts, plans and building commitment This session ends with an opportunity for teams/ participants to share their PDSA plans, thoughts about what their workshop experience and identify the commitments of the teams and the group as a whole for future action and learning.
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| 3:00 – 3:15 pm | Wrap up and next steps | |
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