Doctor Lombardi has also talked to you about ethnography and she's talked about
the cycle of care. During this period of time I hope you
spent lots of time observing the healthcare environment, both inside and
outside the clinic. And I would assume, at least I hope, you
have been keeping copious notes. And if you had you will recognize that
there are many, many sources of potential needs that we could specify we could
identify they run interim. Those needs that we identify when we
watch the doctor or the clinician interact with a patient.
Those needs that we can think about in terms of just in general.
We think about the, the eight, categories the eight components.
And needs associated with quality. We can think about those needs and
consider those needs that come from what we may have read.
so we have observations, we have reading, we have interviews, we have a dramatic
source of needs. Now the problem with this, is that we
don't know what quite what to write, and some people want to write a problem
statement. And so you may have at this point
anywhere from 50 to perhaps several hundred pages of notes that you've been
observing in a clinical environment or observing healthcare for several weeks.
Maybe 40 to 80 hours worth of effort at this point.
Now, if you're a clinician obviously, you've been observing for years and
years. So you may have more than the proverbial
semester class of 40 hours to 80 hours of observations that you've been building
upon. Now, the problem with this is we've got
to be able to condense all these notes into something that's tractable.
So one of the things people start out with is a problem statement.
problem statements includes five components.