A five-year-old walks into an Echo room, seems fine in the doorway, and then cowers and bursts into tears the second he crosses the threshold... before anyone has even touched him. From the provider's height, nothing changed - until we are adapting Thomas Edison's second innovation competency, Kaleidoscopic Thinking, to pediatric healthcare.
A five-year-old walks into an Echo room, seems fine in the doorway, and then cowers and bursts into tears the second he crosses the threshold... before anyone has even touched him.
From the provider's height, nothing changed - but from three feet off the ground, the room looks terrifying, cold, and entirely unfamiliar.
In Part 2 of our Innovation for Atraumatic Care mini-series, we are adapting Thomas Edison's second innovation competency, Kaleidoscopic Thinking, to pediatric healthcare. You'll learn how to turn the problem across four distinct views (the child, the parent, the room, and the staff) and discover a simple, 5-minute floor exercise that will permanently change how you walk into a procedure room.
Press play to learn how shifting your perspective can instantly reduce pediatric medical trauma and transform your unit's design.
PS. Have you ever looked at your procedure room from three feet off the ground? Once you do, JOIN THE NETWORK and share what you find when you run this exercise.