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Background  Inter‐professional health care teams represent the nucleus of both patient care and the clinical education of novices. Both activities depend upon the‘talk’ that team members use to interact with one another. This study explored team members’ interpretations of tense team communications in the operating room (OR).

Methods  The study was conducted using 52 team members divided into 14 focus groups. Team members comprised 13 surgeons, 19 nurses, nine anaesthetists and 11 trainees. Both uni‐disciplinary (n = 11) and multi‐disciplinary (n = 3) formats were employed. All groups discussed three communication scenarios, derived from prior ethnographic research. Discussions were audio‐recorded and transcribed. Using a grounded theory approach, three researchers individually analysed sample transcripts, after which group discussions were held to resolve discrepancies and confirm a …