dc.contributor.author | Gillespie, Brigid M | |
dc.contributor.author | Gwinner, Karleen | |
dc.contributor.author | Chaboyer, Wendy | |
dc.contributor.author | Fairweather, Nicole | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-03T13:25:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-03T13:25:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1356-1820 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3109/13561820.2013.784243 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/56020 | |
dc.description.abstract | Abstract 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.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.format.extent | 407578 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Informa Healthcare | |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | |
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublication | N | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 387 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 393 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 5 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Journal of Interprofessional Care | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 27 | |
dc.rights.retention | Y | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Acute care | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Health services and systems | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Public health | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 420501 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4203 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4206 | |
dc.title | Team communications in surgery - creating a culture of safety | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.faculty | Griffith 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.issued | 2015-07-29T04:02:07Z | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Chaboyer, Wendy | |
gro.griffith.author | Gillespie, Brigid M. | |