John Nance

John Nance Speaking Topics

• Restoring Faith With the High Reliability Revolution in Healthcare

  A hard-hitting refresher presentation by John J. Nance, a founding Board Member of the National Patient Safety Foundation, and author of the acclaimed bestselling book, "Why Hospitals Should Fly"

  Been a bit distracted lately?

  With just a few “minor” external challenges like the Covid pandemic, faltering reimbursement, personnel shortages and uncertain futures (to name a few), no one in American Healthcare in any role is immune from a bit of professional anxiety. In fact, it can truthfully be said that anyone in healthcare who hasn’t been rattled simply doesn’t understand the situation.

  From the Artificial Intelligence tsunami through the accelerating use of telemedicine, the noise level of change and challenge is having a very detrimental effect in one particular area: the challenge of remembering the major changes in quality, safety, and teamwork we achieved through the 20 years before Covid. In short, how do we keep those seismic achievements alive and thriving?

  This presentation is a dynamic back-to-basics refresher on what we’ve accomplished and how to keep that flame burning brightly. Even though the Patient Centric Revolution was not yet complete, literally tens of thousands of patients are alive today who wouldn’t be with us had patient safety never emerged as a major focus of every healthcare organization.

  The hallmark of John Nance’s presentations is his method of working in advance with each client to best address the organization’s specific challenges and needs. This is a mid- course rally focused on the future and reminding everyone why two decades of change has been so important.

• A "Crash Course" - How Airline Mishaps Have Made Everyday Life Safer

  Really ... it’s quite a story, but it’s also a fascinating peek behind the curtain of network television and John Nance’s 35-year journey including studio broadcasts, live video feeds from the back hallways of airports, on the road, and sometimes from the deck of his boat.

  Several generations of North Americans have now grown up watching and listening to John Nance, "ABC World News" and "Good Morning America‘s" longtime Aviation Analyst. John has always been the calming voice giving you the inside information only a veteran military pilot and airline captain could provide. True, hundreds of hours of John’s airtime has dealt with something that went very wrong in the business of flying airplanes. But his in-person stories about what he couldn’t say prematurely on-the-air meld with fascinating accounts of how aviation safety went through a revolution that has improved everything from stocking grocery stores to running a zoo. It’s an unforgettable and often hilarious presentation.

  As a master storyteller, John is energetic, dynamic, and genuinely funny. He is a consummate professional authority on many subjects, and his presentations on the amazing applicability of aviation accident investigation to everyday life are as riveting as they are unexpected. A significant added feature is his ability to interlace his messages with your specific group, whether corporate leaders, trade associations, conventions, or professional seminars. As a major plus for event planners, John is instantly recognizable to any audience from decades on air, and is respected by audiences of all ages.

• The Lessons Learned

  In the aftermath of the international healthcare emergency caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic, few if any hospitals large or small have escaped having to deal with major systemic stress. In most cases, in addition to unleashing major unexpected financial challenges, the seismic challenges to clinical staff and all support services has spawned untold examples of how people rose to the occasion (or didn't), and how bedrock procedures and strategies were changed on the fly (and in some cases abandoned) to get the job done. All of this occurred against the backdrop of a massively challenged, frightened, and often polarized civilian population whose lack of collective knowledge and understanding of the factual science often made the hospital's job infinitely more difficult. There has been created, in other words, a major anthology in terms of how your institution dealt with all aspects of the Covid-19 challenge. Moreover, every salient aspect of that anthology (including the clinical, scientific, procedural, human, and financial history) holds untold lessons. Those lessons, if captured and examined appropriately, will light the way to far more realistic systemic and professional knowledge of how high reliability, just culture, patient safety, and the highest level of care are really achieved, especially in your institution!