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Team communications in surgery - creating a culture of safety.
- Source :
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Journal of Interprofessional Care . Sep2013, Vol. 27 Issue 5, p387-393. 7p. - Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- As a key department within a healthcare organisation, the operating room is a hazardous environment, where the consequences of errors are high, despite the relatively low rates of occurrence. Team performance in surgery is increasingly being considered crucial for a culture of safety. The aim of this study was to describe team communication and the ways it fostered or threatened safety culture in surgery. Ethnography was used, and involved a 6-month fieldwork period of observation and 19 interviews with 24 informants from nursing, anaesthesia and surgery. Data were collected during 2009 in the operating rooms of a tertiary care facility in Queensland, Australia. Through analysis of the textual data, three themes that exemplified teamwork culture in surgery were generated: 'building shared understandings through open communication'; 'managing contextual stressors in a hierarchical environment' and 'intermittent membership influences team performance'. In creating a safety culture in a healthcare organisation, a team's optimal performance relies on the open discussion of teamwork and team expectation, and significantly depends on how the organisational culture promotes such discussions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13561820
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Interprofessional Care
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 89566528
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3109/13561820.2013.784243