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Mastering Teamwork and Communication in Healthcare Settings

American Medical Compliance

Teamwork is the foundation of a healthcare system that runs smoothly and provides the best possible care for its patients. Inadequate teamwork can result in clinical adverse events because of communication hurdles between hierarchies, a failure to recognize human fallibility, and a lack of situational awareness.

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Why the interest in pre-hospital? Why not?!

Mind The Bleep

Nith Inshore Rescue work closely with other emergency services, including the Scottish Ambulance Service, and have taken part in multi-agency training exercises to practice our handovers and inter-agency teamwork skills. Enough about me and my experience… What can you do within pre-hospital care as part of your career?

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The ‘Hidden C’

Don't Forget the Bubbles

In such situations, ‘soft skills’ such as teamwork, compassionate leadership, strong interpersonal communication, and psychological safety are essential. Incivility and clinical performance, teamwork, and emotions: a randomized controlled trial. Exposure to incivility hinders clinical performance in a simulated operative crisis.

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Getting everyone to sing in harmony

Don't Forget the Bubbles

There is leadership operating at many levels. But, just like a ‘good’ resuscitation, the secret to a great jam is lots of preparation and finely-tuned teamwork. It has developed my leadership, followership, and teamwork skills. In practice, though, things are more complicated. Think about the composer.

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Sepsis alerts work! Just not in the patients who fire the alerts

PulmCCM

Instead of clinical micromanagement, in its new form it would incentivize continuous improvement in systemwide operational processes. It would acknowledge the potentially fatal problem of accurate case identification (i.e.,

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Learning about human factors in the emergency department

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Then the patient is rapidly moved to the operating theatre. Challenging hierarchy in healthcare teams – ways to flatten gradients to improve teamwork and patient care. The effects of aviation-style non-technical skills training on technical performance and outcome in the operating theatre. Communication is closed-loop.

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An Insight into Mountain Rescue Teams (MRTs)

Mind The Bleep

Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR) is an umbrella organisation, with teams the final decider of how they operate. Team equipment, procedures, training schedules/frequency, and skill mix vary between teams greatly. So MRTs are so much more than an emergency rescue service. So many skills are required other than clinical ones.