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Recognizing a Strong Team in the Operating Room: Signs, Symptoms, and Teamwork Essentials

A strong operating room team exhibits shared mental models and a valued collective vision. Regular feedback and a deep sense of trust characterize high-performing teams. Effective cooperation is evident when team members acknowledge requests and seek clarification, ensuring clarity in high-stakes situations. Utilizing a checklist fosters teamwork by reminding surgical teams to discuss critical safety steps collaboratively. This guide explores essential teamwork actions and poses questions to enhance dialogue and teamwork at your surgical site.

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Recognizing a Strong Team in the Operating Room: Signs, Symptoms, and Teamwork Essentials

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  1. How do you know you have a strong team in your operating room? Signs and Symptoms

  2. Teams that perform well …. • Hold shared mental models • Have clear, valued, and shared vision • Engage in a regular discipline of feedback • Develop a strong sense of collective trust and confidence • Cooperate and coordinate

  3. Examples of teamwork actions Verbally acknowledge requests from other team members “Could you please get a 25 mm EEA stapler with 4.8 mm staples?” “Yes, I’ll be right back with a 25 mm EEA stapler with 4.8 mm staples.”

  4. Examples of teamwork actions Seeking clarification “Dr. Lee, do you want 40mg or 90mg of Gentamicin in the 50cc bag you ordered? I cannot tell if you have written a 4 or a 9 on this order.” “We need 90mg of Gentamicin. Thank you for asking.”

  5. Why a Checklist?

  6. This Checklist Is Not . . . • An algorithm. • A tool to train people how to do their jobs. • A “tick boxing” exercise.

  7. This Checklist is . . . • A reminder for the surgical team to perform/discuss critical safety steps for every patient every time. • Performed as a team and read aloud. Teamwork is Hiding in the Checklist

  8. Process Teamwork

  9. Process Teamwork

  10. Process Teamwork

  11. How to do it! http://www.safesurgery2015.org/videos.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d6U5pQu6b_c

  12. What questions in your Checklist lead to teamworkdialogue?How could you use the Checklist to facilitate teamwork at your site?

  13. Your Turn • Does this resonate? • How would providers at your site respond to this?

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