Team communications in surgery - creating a culture of safety
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01/05/2013
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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. |
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Taylor & Francis |
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DOI:10.3109/13561820.2013.784243 Gillespie, Brigid, Gwinner, Karleen, & Chaboyer, Wendy (2013) Team communications in surgery - creating a culture of safety. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 27(5), pp. 387-393. |
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Children & Youth Research Centre |
Palavras-Chave | #110000 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES #110300 CLINICAL SCIENCES #111000 NURSING |
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Journal Article |