PC1 - Take Your Team to the Next Level with TeamSTEPPS
Disciplines: Women’s Health (WH), Professional Issues (PI), Newborn Care (NB), Childbearing (CB), Advanced Practice (AP)
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the importance of team training for patient safety and staff satisfaction.
- Identify benefits of team strategies and tools to enhance performance and patient safety.
- Discuss application and indications for use of TeamSTEPPS in practice or facilities.
Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS)is an evidence-based teamwork system aimed at optimizing patient outcomes by improving communication and teamwork skills among health care professionals. Teamwork has been found to be one of the key initiatives in patient safety that can transform the culture within healthcare. Patient safety experts agree that communication and other teamwork skills are essential for the provision of quality healthcare and for the prevention and mitigation of medical errors and patient injury and harm. Faculty will reinforce material through use of simulation scenarios. At this highly participatory, hands-on workshop, attendees will take away vital tools and strategies to facilitate enhanced teamwork in their own practice settings.
Saturday, June 25, 2011: 8:00 AM-5:00 PM
709-711 (Colorado Convention Center)
Moderator:
Khin Aungthein, RNC-MSN
Presenting Authors:
Michelle L. Munroe, LTC, AN, CNM
and
Amber L. Pocrnich, MAJ, AN, RNC
