title: Fighting fire - with teamwork.
abstract: Team work is a process of working collaboratively and an important aspect of inter professional team success. This article is a reflective account, following eight midwifery students who participated in group dynamics training with a team of airport fire officers. It highlights howyou can borrow teamwork and communication strategies from other high profile industries and adapt it to midwifery practice. The experience demonstrated how a team approach brought together a cluster of skills, experience and understanding, something that cannot exist in one individual. It also demonstrated that when team work is successful the results are amazing.
authors.affiliation: University of the West of England.
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: McKerron
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004638:Emergency Treatment / Q000451:nursing*; D005260:Female; D005390:Fires; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007857:Leadership; D008880:Midwifery / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D061214:Patient Safety; D013338:Students, Nursing