August 01, 2005 - Is Your Organization Ready for TeamSTEPPS™?
Is Your Organization Ready for TeamSTEPPS™?
Answering these questions can help your institution understand its level of readiness to initiate
the TeamSTEPPS program. You may find it helpful to have a colleague review your responses or
to answer the questions with a large…
February 28, 2022 - TeamSTEPPS Situation Monitoring Module 3
Situation Monitoring
Module 3
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Situation Monitoring Exercise:
Rebuild Your Tower
Situation Monitoring
Rules:
Same goals and rules as the earlier tower building exercise except one BIG change:
The Color Guide cannot speak or write the name of any color.
The Length Guide…
February 28, 2022 - TeamSTEPPS Team Leadership Module 2
Team Leadership
Module 2
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Understanding Teams and Team Structure
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Objectives: Team Structure
Team Leadership
Understand the benefits of teamwork and clear team structure.
Define a “team.”
Identify the roles of patients and family caregivers within the care team.
Desc…
August 06, 2012 - Staff Safety Assessment
Purpose of this form: This form is designed to tap into your experience at the front line of patient care to determine what risks are present in your unit that have jeopardized or could jeopardize patient safety.
Who should us this tool? Health care providers.
How to complete this form: Provi…
August 07, 2012 - Safety Issues Worksheet for Senior Executive Partnership
Who should use this tool? Health care providers and the senior leader.
Date of safety rounds:___________
Unit:______________________
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Identified Issues
Potential/Recommended Solutions
Resources Needed
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August 08, 2012 - Shadowing Another Professional Tool
Problem Statement: Health care delivery is a multidisciplinary practice that requires coordination of care among different professions and provider types. However, health care providers often do not understand other disciplines’ daily responsibilities, teamwork, and communication iss…
August 07, 2012 - Background Quality Improvement Team Information Form
Who should use this tool? Health care providers.
Please indicate people designated as Quality Improvement Team Members. Your team may not have people who serve in all of these roles.
These individuals from are members of the Qual…
August 07, 2012 - Checklist Items
Leader Responsible
Date
Initiated
1. Set an organization aim of annually assessing the safety and teamwork climate.
2. Improve the safety and teamwork climate using valid measures.
3. Set expectation for unit-level culture assessment.
4. Require at least a 60 percent participation…
January 01, 2003 - Daily Goals Checklist
Problem statement: Clear communication among health care providers is paramount. Communication failures lead to patient harm, increased length of stay, provider dissatisfaction, and staff turnover. Effective communication is particularly important in the unit if complicated care plans are to be …
August 07, 2012 - Conducting a Morning Briefing
Problem statement: Physicians can improve communication with nursing staff while more efficiently prioritizing patient care delivery and admissions and discharges.
What is a Morning Briefing? A morning briefing is a dialogue between two or more people using concise and relevant informati…
August 07, 2012 - Team Check-up Tool
Purpose of the tool: This tool helps assess unit strengths and opportunities for improving unit processes and upgrading unit safety culture.
Who should use this tool? Health care providers.
Directions: Your team should collectively complete one Team Check-up Tool every month and submit it to the proj…
August 07, 2012 - Infection Preventionist Checklist
Who should use this tool? Infection preventionists.
Checklist Items
Leader Responsible
Date
Started
1. Meet with the CEO and hospital project leader to learn about the initiative and understand the infection prevention (IP) roles.
2. Introduce the project to all IP s…
August 08, 2012 - CEO/Senior Leader Checklist
Who should use this tool? Senior leaders.
Checklist Items
Leader Responsible
Date
Initiated
1. Ensure all current and new employees receive Science of Safety training.
2. Assign a senior executive (Chief Executive Officer or another leader) as an active member of each
August 07, 2012 - Observing Patient Care Rounds
Problem statement: Interdisciplinary rounds are in the best interest of patients. Poor communication among staff is a root cause of many patient adverse and sentinel events. Communication among disciplines can be improved if viewed through the eyes of an objective observer.
What are obser…
August 08, 2012 - Learn From Defects Tool
Problem statement: Health care organizations can increase the extent to which they learn from defects. We define this learning as reducing the probability that a future patient will be harmed. Most often clinicians recover from mistakes by reducing risks to the patient who suffered a defect.
Wh…
October 01, 2014 - integrated into the course during the 2008/09 academic year and is expected to become a mainstay of the curriculum … Product(s):
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
Topic(s):
Education: Curriculum
May 04, 2016 - for
Lung Cancer Screening
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January 01, 2017 - and Long-Term Care Planning
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December 09, 2015 - Health Literacy Patients
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