Learning Organization Model: Accountable Care

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On the continuum from status quo thinking to “thinking heaven”, my unit is 8 out of 10 (where 1 is status quo thinking and 10 is “thinking heaven”). I give my work environment these high marks based on Rubenfeld and Scheffer (2015) definition of “learning organizations” (p. 75). They explain that within this model “organizational cultures encourage critical thinking and acknowledge the inevitability of change” through characteristics of “trustworthiness, autonomy, responsibility and reflection” (Rubenfeld & Scheffer, 2015, p. 75). Through the implementation of the Accountable Care Unit (ACU), our nurses have been able to demonstrate the specific characteristics of a “learning organization” and we have learned the importance of using open

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