Towards a safer culture: implementing multidisciplinary simulation-based team training in New Zealand operating theatres - a framework analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

NetworkZ is a simulation-based multidisciplinary team-training programme designed to enhance patient safety by improving communication and teamwork in operating theatres (OTs). In partnership with the Accident Compensation Corporation, its implementation across New Zealand (NZ) began in 2017. Our aim was to explore the experiences of staff - including the challenges they faced - in implementing NetworkZ in NZ hospitals, so that we could improve the processes necessary for subsequent implementation.

Method

We interviewed staff from five hospitals involved in the initial implementation of NetworkZ, using the Organising for Quality model as the framework for analysis. This model describes embedding successful quality improvement as a process of overcoming six universal chal

SUBMITTER: Jowsey T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6830648 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature