One of the fun things about doing observations in a hospital is that you see lots of unexpected things. When observing surgeries or patient consultations in the outpatient department I was introduced to doctors and nurses. After been told what my background was (systems engineer/consultant) some asked whether I was going to investigate how efficient …
Surgeons lead nomadic lives in hospitals. Nomads have no fixed habitation and regularly move to and from the same areas (special thanks to Wikipedia for this non scientific definition, but for this purpose it will do). Surgeons travel between places that are run by nurses, in order to service their patients. Interestingly this type of nomadic life …
This is going to be my first Dutch blog (indeed, bad start!). I was at a conference on science blogging and as most sites I will refer to are in Dutch, this seems like the most obvious thing to do. Via Rosanne Hertzberger had ik van dit symposium vernomen . Met haar en iets van …
I received quite some response on the blog on nurses who run the hospital. It appears that to several people who are a nurse or represent nurses it felt like some kind of recognition or appreciation for what they do. Nevertheless, the fact that nurses ‘run’ the hospital is not necessarily good news. It means …
Happy new year! These fireworks are in fact nine social networks for nine tasks that are performed in order to do surgeries for patients. The entire network in my previous blog is built up from 23 social networks, one for each task. Tasks are for example: making the master schedule for the operating theatre (OT), …
Centralization without hierarchy: a ground for organizational firework? Lees verder »
Professor Frits van Merode had already said it to me in the early days of my PhD research: hospitals are actually run by nurses. I think his statement did not fully hit me or maybe in my subconscience I thought it was one of those things that is also said about ‘the wife behind the …
Time flies; my last blog was in September when I thought I was almost ready with my hospital social network. The social network is not yet complete – soon will be!! – so I will wait sharing that. In the meantime my first (scientific) paper (ever) has been accepted and will be published any time …
The fun thing about this blog is that I receive comments from different kind of people. Some people comment that they think my blog too long to be a blog (it turned out all individual blogs all in one long thread came accross as one (yes indeed) very long blog: if you click on the three …
Today I was at a meeting with a bunch of scientists who (want to) do research in an open way, in some cases as a guest of a university, in some cases outside the university or as part of the university. It turns out that the university is not heaven on earth for everyone and …
In the past weeks I have been wondering what the next blog could be about. I have been working on social networks over summer and there is (too) much to say about that and at the same time I have questions on how to use these networks. I could probably blog 60 pages easily but …
