A (extraordinary) Day In My Life I am inspired to write about an extraordinary day I experienced yesterday in a California labor and delivery unit. A little background first: for the past four years I have been working diligently on a lactation support product I call “Primo-Lacto: A Closed System For Colostrum Collection.” This product […]
This week our class launched into the brainstorming and prototyping phase of design. We ended last week on Thursday with an exercise that illustrates the power of attitude and response style when brainstorming with other people. (see embedded mp3 below): This exercise is from “Only Human,” a podcast about health. Mary Harris, the creator of Only Human, did a […]
Yesterday’s class was focused on the second phase of the design thinking process: synthesis/define. How the heck do we make sense of all the stuff we have seen and heard? What exactly are we “defining?” The point of synthesis is to try and find patterns or exceptions that help you understand what might be needed in […]
This week we are in the “synthesis” phase of the design process. So far, students have interviewed clinicians and newly delivered parents, observed three L&D medical simulations at CAPE , focused on challenges in the physical environment and had a tour of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. A lot of information has been absorbed, and now it’s time to […]
Thursday, Jan. 14 our students had a tour of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital L&D unit. Here are some student’s insights/observations. Here is a link to the photos. Some of the issues that stood out to me in the LDR were wire management hazards, the lack of space in case of an emergency resuscitation (there is no way 4-5 people […]
Today we spent the morning at The Center For Advanced Pediatric & Perinatal Education to attend three simulations that highlighted challenges in the L&D environment. Here is the full sim about delayed cord clamping. Here is the full sim about placental abruption. Here is the full sim about well-baby resuscitation. Here are CAPE insights. I’d […]
Designing For Safety In Labor & Delivery started on 1/5/16 at the d. School. Last week we had our first “ethnography day” where we invited two OB/GYN doctors, a neonatologist (our instructor Dr. Henry Lee) and three newly delivered parents to be interviewed by the students. Students came to class having crafted their own open-ended interview questions. […]
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Since last Thursday I have been pouring over video transcripts and selecting key portions to assemble into a 10 minute video about our class Redesigning The Neonatal ICU. Our goal for this short film is to communicate how combining interdisciplinary design students, patients and clinicians can lead to meaningful innovation in healthcare. We will be screening the film […]
Today we had the opportunity to tour the Kaiser Garfield Innovation Center with Angelene Baldi, the architect who designed the new NICU standard at Kaiser. Kaiser started to look at redesigning their NICU rooms in 2006 when Angelene asked the question, “Why are we still doing an open pod format for our NICU designs?” Knowing […]