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Hardwiring TeamSTEPPS into Trauma Resuscitations: Optimizing Tar Heel Trauma Care
With backgrounds in trauma care, quality improvement, athletics, and the military, our webinar presenters discuss how ongoing work to standardize and continually improve trauma resuscitations in the emergency department is strengthening a culture of TeamSTEPPS and patient safety in an academic Level I Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center. Alberto Bonifacio, RN, BSN, MHA, CEN and Elizabeth Schroeder, RN, BSN, CEN, TCRN of University of North Carolina Hospitals, and Daryhl Johnson II, MD, MPH, FACS of UNC School of Medicine share precious lessons learned and real-world insights. (Webinar presented October 10, 2018)
Improving TeamSTEPPS in Medical Education: A Student-Veteran Inspired Initiative to Improve Behaviors and Understand Barriers
While the call for teamwork training in medical education continues to strengthen, no clear consensus exists on the method(s) to most effectively accomplish this training. Two medical student TeamSTEPPS Master Trainers, Rick Lang and Tom Kuriakose, describe lessons learned from the Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) four-year initiative to improve teamwork behaviors of medical students and understand the barriers limiting effective teamwork training at the medical school level. (Webinar presented November 14, 2018)
Taking Stepps to Sustain a Just Culture
Just Culture in health care is effective in reducing safety risks while being fair to staff who make errors. TeamSTEPPS is an evidence-based set of teamwork tools, aimed at optimizing patient outcomes by improving communication and teamwork skills among health care professionals. This webinar provides a brief overview of key components of Just Culture, and then showcases specific examples of TeamSTEPPS tools that may be applied to attain and sustain a Just Culture. (Webinar presented December 12, 2018)
The What and Why of TeamSTEPPS: A New Way to Look at the Tools and Concepts
In most cases in health care, multiple experts are involved in the care of a single patient. However, these multiple experts do not always function together as an expert team, leading to breakdowns in communication, teamwork, and leadership – resulting in poor patient outcomes. The University of Washington Medicine TeamSTEPPS faculty discusses the fundamentals of TeamSTEPPS and the systematic approach of the tools and concepts, and provides ideas on how best to implement these tools and concepts in your organization. (Webinar presented January 9, 2019)
Expanding the Team: Practical Uses of TeamSTEPPS for Non-Clinical Team Members
Truly successful health care teams are those that involve the whole staff and not just those with a clinical background. TeamSTEPPS tools are practical “life skills” that can be used whether you are treating a patient, interacting with co-workers in meetings, or answering emails. In fact, a great way to ensure sustainability of TeamSTEPPS is to embed it into non-clinical situations and processes. This webinar introduces TeamSTEPPS concepts and tools from the non-clinical perspective. (Webinar presented February 13, 2019)
Regular or Extra Crispy - Lessons From the Field in Addressing Burnout
In today’s distracted world we are bouncing from one activity to the next, trying to do more with less and pushing our abilities to the limit. How is it that some emerge from this relentless pace with more energy and drive, while others are burned out? Elisa Arespacochaga, Vice President, American Hospital Association Physician Alliance, gives a national perspective on the implications and drivers of burnout and how organizations are refocusing on purpose to improve health care delivery and support their teams. (Webinar presented March 13, 2019)
Building a Culture of Respect to Improve Patient Safety, Medical Team Performance and Patient and Staff Satisfaction
Disrespectful work environments in health care represent a risk to patient safety and have negative impacts on patient outcomes and staff satisfaction. Bettina Siewert, MD and Suzanne Swedeen RN, MSN from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center discuss the impact of disrespectful work environments on health care, explore frequently experienced disrespectful behaviors in the workplace, as well as behaviors that are seen as respectful, and share measures for building a strong culture of respect. (Webinar presented May 8, 2019)
Creating a Culture of Safety in Four [not so easy] Steps
Creating a safety culture is a key to achieving high reliability in health care. David L. Feldman, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice-President of Hospitals Insurance Company reviews the necessary ingredients for such a change using the Operating Room as a typical, and challenging, example. Key topics reviewed include changing the culture using TeamSTEPPS teamwork skills and changing the “system” by focusing on concepts in human factors engineering. (Webinar presented April 10, 2019)
AHA, Associations, Hospitals Respond to Government in 340B Supreme Court Case
The government does not dispute that the agency singled out Section 340B hospitals as a group and set their reimbursement based on acquisition cost rather than price, without conducting the cost study that the statute requires. The agency’s action was therefore contrary to law.
You can do this! Address and Treat Opioid Use Disorder as Part of Usual Hospital Care Dec 13
The opioid crisis continues to be a public health emergency.