Breakdowns in teamwork that lead to surgical flow or operative disruptions are exceedingly
common, having been noted at a rate of 17.4 per hour in one cardiac surgery study19 and at …

Geriatric medicine is a speciality that has historically relied on team working to best serve
patients. The nature of frailty in older people means that people present with numerous …

Summary The publication of To Err Is Human in the USA and An Organisation with a
Memory in the UK more than a decade ago put patient safety firmly on the clinical and policy …

Aim This article reports an analysis of the concept of situational awareness in nursing.
Background Situational awareness is a fundamental and well‐understood concept used to …

Abstract Aim To explore Norwegian operating room nurses' perceptions of how team skills in
the inter‐professional operating room team influence perioperative nursing in relation to …

Introduction: Nontechnical skills (NTS) such as teamwork and communication play an
important role in preventing adverse outcomes in the operating room (OR). Simulation …

Background Incident reporting and fieldwork in operating rooms have shown that some of
the errors that arise in anaesthesia relate to inadequate use of non‐technical skills. To …

Aim To identify and describe the factors that impact on the performance of scrub nurses' non‐
technical skills performance during the intra‐operative phase of surgery. Background Non …

Background Effective teamwork has been recognised as a major contributor to safe patient
care in surgery. Previous research has highlighted the importance of adaptive coordination …

Background Over the past three decades multiple tools have been developed for the
assessment of non-technical skills (NTS) in healthcare. This study was designed primarily to …