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Yep! I’m right there with you as a retired Quality Nurse...love the process of a Root Cause Analysis and those pesky 5 why’s.

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Please, what are the pesky 5 why's?

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Its a problem solving tool that suggests by the time you ask “why did happen?” 5 times, you find the root cause of a problem

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Thank you! My training is that "Why" is sometimes not a helpful question, in that it can stir up a defensive answer, "Why did you do that?" But perhaps this is different, asking Why did it happen? I'm going to try!

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Every time I ever submitted a 5 Why (ugh), the reviewer didn’t agree with my Whys. They’d change them arbitrarily and I’d just say “ok, will you sign off on it now?”

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