A Pop-up Training Model for Critical Needs

The mediaX webinar series “Thinking Tools for Wicked Problems” continues with mediaX Distinguished Visiting Scholar and CEO of Futuro Health Van Ton-Quinlivan. Health care is a prime example of one of the wicked problems faced in education. Even after a training need is identified, it takes time to achieve agreement across stakeholders to identify the curriculum requirements and find resources to satisfy them. An emergent need can become critical in the time it takes to create and roll out a new training program. In the current pandemic context, this is especially true for licensed health care workers.

Shared vision and collaboration across stakeholders are essential to respond to wicked problems. In this seminar I’ll talk about the coordinated effort that has created a self-paced online Pandemic Readiness curriculum for licensed practical nursing (LPNs) serving California’s 40 million residents and the pop-up facilities anticipated for the COVID-19 critical needs.

In this talk, Van will address this issue in 3 parts;
1. Workforce development can deliver training at the speed of need.
2. Regional is an alternative for innovating hard skills and replicating soft skills.
3. The clinical bottleneck remains a wicked problem for delivering the next generation of healthcare workers.

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