What non-technical skills competencies are addressed by Australian standards documents for health professionals who work in secondary and tertiary clinical settings? A qualitative comparative analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

At minimum, safe patient outcomes are recognised as resulting from a combination of technical and non-technical skills. Flin and colleagues provide a practical framework of non-technical skills, cognitive, social and interpersonal, that complement technical skills, with categories identified as situational awareness, communication, team working, decision-making, leadership, coping with stress and managing fatigue. The aim of this research was to explore the alignment of categories and elements of non-technical skills with those in the published standards documents of several health professions in Australia.

Design

A qualitative comparative analysis using document analysis and deductive coding examined, extracted and interpreted data from competency s

SUBMITTER: Peddle M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6078249 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature