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dc.contributor.authorGillespie, Brigid M
dc.contributor.authorGwinner, Karleen
dc.contributor.authorChaboyer, Wendy
dc.contributor.authorFairweather, Nicole
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:25:10Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:25:10Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.issn1356-1820
dc.identifier.doi10.3109/13561820.2013.784243
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/56020
dc.description.abstractAbstract As a key department within a healthcare organisation, the operating room is a hazardous environment, where the consequences of errors are high, despite the relatively low rates of occurrence. Team performance in surgery is increasingly being considered crucial for a culture of safety. The aim of this study was to describe team communication and the ways it fostered or threatened safety culture in surgery. Ethnography was used, and involved a 6-month fieldwork period of observation and 19 interviews with 24 informants from nursing, anaesthesia and surgery. Data were collected during 2009 in the operating rooms of a tertiary care facility in Queensland, Australia. Through analysis of the textual data, three themes that exemplified teamwork culture in surgery were generated: "building shared understandings through open communication"; "managing contextual stressors in a hierarchical environment" and "intermittent membership influences team performance". In creating a safety culture in a healthcare organisation, a team's optimal performance relies on the open discussion of teamwork and team expectation, and significantly depends on how the organisational culture promotes such discussions.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.format.extent407578 bytes
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherInforma Healthcare
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom387
dc.relation.ispartofpageto393
dc.relation.ispartofissue5
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Interprofessional Care
dc.relation.ispartofvolume27
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAcute care
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHealth services and systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPublic health
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode420501
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4203
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4206
dc.titleTeam communications in surgery - creating a culture of safety
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery
gro.rights.copyright© 2013 Informa Healthcare. This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Interprofessional Care, Vol.27 (5), 2013, pp.387-393 Journal of Interprofessional Care is available online at: http://informahealthcare.com with the open URL of your article.
gro.date.issued2015-07-29T04:02:07Z
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorChaboyer, Wendy
gro.griffith.authorGillespie, Brigid M.


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