Job Satisfaction
Improve the Work Environment for Staff and Doctors
One of the main goals at 1Unit is to increase employee engagement, communication and teamwork scores. Frontline engagement is essential to a functional, safe working environment.
“Nurse engagement is the No. 1 predictor of mortality variation across hospitals. The commitment and emotional involvement of the nurses on staff is even more important than their numbers.”
Source: Gallup. news.gallup.com/poll/20629/nurse-engagement-key-reducing-medical-errors.aspx
Reported Employee Engagement Outcomes
Units implementing SIBR® rounds report a variety of employee engagement and participation benefits:
- 49% increase in nurse participation in team rounds
- 100-300% increase in family participation in team rounds
- 34% increase in nursing job satisfaction
- 25% decrease in team rounds’ duration
- Significant improvements in interprofessional communication
“Our study hospital [The Christ Hospital] achieved Magnet status in 2011, and generally, is felt to have a healthy environment. The addition of team-based, high-SIBR on the geriatric ACE unit demonstrated significant improvements in many variables related to positive work environments.”
Source: Gausvik, et al., 2015. Structured nursing communication on interdisciplinary acute care teams improves perceptions of safety, efficiency, understanding of care plan and teamwork as well as job satisfaction. Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare, 8, 33.
What Mechanisms Create These Employee Engagement Results?
Standardizing processes such as Bedside Handover and SIBR rounds on units creates stability, consistency and reliability. Staff learn to trust in the processes: consistent structure, start times and content.
They start to realize that there is a different way to care for patients – a way to deliver great care with less effort. And with this gain comes a sense of satisfaction and pride from the care they are then delivering.
These same process features enable patients and their families to familiarize themselves with the unit’s routines and get their questions answered: when will the doctor come, why have the medications changed, who arranges the post-hospitalization medical equipment, what is the plan of care, where will they be discharged?
CASE STUDIES
See what improvements our partner hospitals achieved after implementing our programs
SIBR Increases Rounds Participation #1
49% increase in nursing participation
308% increase in family participation
SIBR Increases Rounds Participation #2
104% increase in family participation
369% increase in Respiratory Care Practitioner participation
SIBR Increases Rounds Participation #3
Nursing and allied health participation in rounds were significantly higher for SIBR rounds
SIBR Doubles Interprofessional Communication
37% increase in residents’ rating of IPC
105% increase in nurses’ rating of IPC
SIBR Increases Interprofessional Communication Quality
68% increase in residents’ perceptions of the quality of IPC compared to other units
Improved nursing satisfaction across a number of measures
24% increase in nursing staff job satisfaction
Staff prefer SIBR rounds to traditional unit rounds
78% nurses found SIBR rounds to be more useful than traditional rounds
Physicians say SIBR is more effective
97% increase PICU resident physicians say SIBR is more effective than rounds without structure
SIBR Shortens Duration of Rounds
25% reduction in IDR rounding duration compared to traditional rounds.
110 minutes saved per day
Significant reduction in pages from nurses
59% reduction in residents’ pages from nurses
Explore Other Real Life Examples and Case Studies
Our programs, which have been embraced by hundreds of unit-based teams around the world, provide better care more efficiently and with a more human touch.
