title: Improvements in teamwork during neonatal resuscitation after interprofessional TeamSTEPPS training.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the impact of interprofessional Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS ) training on teamwork skills during neonatal resuscitation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Teams of physicians, nurses, and respiratory therapists participated in TeamSTEPPS training that included simulation with an event-based approach. During the simulations, scripted medication order and performance errors were used to test teamwork skills. Measures of teamwork skills were obtained before and after the training using a prospective pretest-posttest design.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty-two physicians, nurses, and respiratory therapists.
  
  
  METHODS
  Teamwork skills.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Significant improvements in teamwork skills were seen in team structure, leadership, situation monitoring, mutual support, and communication (p ,.001). Challenges by nurses to a scripted medication order error doubled from 38 percent before the training to 77 percent after the training. The odds of a nurse challenging an incorrect medication dose from an attending neonatologist improved significantly. Detection and correction of inadequate chest compressions increased from 61.5 to 84.6 percent after the training.
authors: Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI, USA. taylorleesawyer@hotmail.com
authors: Taylor
authors: T
authors: Sawyer
authors: Vickie Ann
authors: VA
authors: Laubach
authors: Joseph
authors: J
authors: Hudak
authors: Kelli
authors: K
authors: Yamamura
authors: Amber
authors: A
authors: Pocrnich
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D007857:Leadership; D017283:Neonatal Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods; D010348:Patient Care Team; D061214:Patient Safety; D018794:Problem-Based Learning / Q000379:methods*; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods; D013192:Staff Development / Q000379:methods