Source: Margaret Plack, Ellen Goldman, Andrea Scott, Christine Pintz, Debra Herrmann, Kathleen Kline, Tracey Thompson, Shelley Brundage
Year: 2019
Across the healthcare professions, trainees are expected to provide patient-centered care, and to do so they must develop competence in systems-based practice... Effective systems-based care requires an understanding of the features and characteristics of a “system” coupled with an understanding of how to think about that system, analyze it, and approach enhancing it (Johnson et al., 2008). The foundational construct that needs to be applied in systems-based practice is systems thinking (Johnson et al., 2008; Miles, 2004; Trbovich, 2014). Systems thinking is a body of knowledge, theory, and techniques applied to enhance understanding of the interrelationships among elements, patterns of change, and structures underlying complex situations (Three Sigma, 2002).