title: Interprofessional team training in pediatric resuscitation: a low-cost, in situ simulation program that enhances self-efficacy among participants.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Simulation-based interprofessional team training is important to ensure high-quality, safe patient care, but several barriers exist, including diverging learning needs and schedules as well as limited available resources.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors developed an in situ, simulation-based interprofessional team training program around pediatric emergencies for physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and pharmacists at their institution and performed an analysis of the program's impact on self-efficacy in resuscitation skills among pediatric residents and nurses.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results showed that with a design based in best principles of team training and simulation education, interprofessional team training is feasible and sustainable. The program had a beneficial effect on self-efficacy in resuscitation skills among both residents and nurses at the authors' institution and received widespread acceptance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A collaborative approach to design and implementation of interprofessional team training can lead to a sustainable program that serves both patient safety and training requirements set forth by professional organizations.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0106, USA. vanschaiks@peds.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Sandrijn M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: van Schaik
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Plant
authors.forename: Shelley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Diane
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tsang
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: O'Sullivan
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004496:Education, Continuing / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000193:education; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000193:education*; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000193:education*; D012495:San Francisco; D020377:Self Efficacy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*