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Introduction & Aim: Despite a growing awareness of the importance of interprofessional teamwork and collaboration, many hospital wards lack effective teamwork, with negative consequences for patient safety. Team training has been identified as a key strategy for enhancing the quality of teamwork in healthcare, and is associated with improved team competencies, patient safety culture and decreased adverse events. Most of the current research on team training has exclusively focused on teamwork in the dynamic domains of healthcare such as operating rooms, intensive care, emergency medicine, or trauma and resuscitation teams, and less in the context of hospital wards. The aim of the study was to evaluate a team training program and the participants` self-reported learning outcomes.
Methods: The study was based on a questionnaire evaluation design. All healthcare personnel (n=45) (nurses, surgeons and assistant nurses) from a urological/gastroenterological surgery ward, attended a one-day (6 hours) TeamSTEPPS training program, with high-fidelity simulation in combination with lectures, videos, role-plays and discussions. The training took place at the “Center of simulation and patient safety” at the university campus. After completing the training, which focused on team structure and team competences (communication, leadership, situation monitoring and mutual support), the healthcare personnel responded to a modified TeamSTEPPS Course Evaluation Questionnaire.
Results: A total of 39 healthcare personnel (87%) completed the questionnaire (24 nurses, 10 physicians, 4 assistant nurses). The results showed high learning scores in teamwork competencies, with the highest score on the mutual support tool “two-challenge-rule” (89%). The majority of healthcare personnel (68%) scored positively according to use the team program in their daily practice. Most of the physicians (80%) and the nurses (92%) were satisfied with the simulation sessions.
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