Assessing Nurse Anaesthetists' Non‐Technical Skills in the operating room

Abstract

A behavioural marker system, N-ANTS, for nurse anaesthetists was adapted from a behavioural marker system, ANTS, for anaesthesiologists.

Enhancing patient safety in the operating theatre: from the perspective of experienced operating theatre nurses

“…They considered proper training and varied experience key elements. This view supports those in other studies in that there is increasing recognition of the need to train and assess nontechnical skills in the OT and not only social and cognitive capabilities but also emotional ones . and the study by Koh et al.…”

Non-technical Skills in Undergraduate Nursing Education: Consideration for a Training Course Development

“…Our review found several articles referring to the importance of NTS training for healthcare and patient safety (Andersen, Jensen, Lippert, & Ostergaard, 2010;Andrews, 2014;Baker, Capella, Hawkes, Gallo, & Clinic, 2011;Boet et al, 2014;Boet, Reeves, & Bould, 2015;Briggs et al, 2015;Brunckhorst et al, 2015;Burton & Ormrod, 2011;Capella et al, 2010;Clark, 2009;Cooper, Endacott, eISSN: 2357-1330 Cooper & Cant, 2014;Dieckmann, 2010;Dunn et al, 2007;Fletcher et al, 2003;Flin, O'Connor, & Crichton, 2008;Flin & Patey, 2011;Flin & Maran, 2015;Freeth et al, 2009;Gaba et al, 2001;Garbee et al, 2013;Gillman et al, 2015;Gundrosen, Solligård, & Aadahl, 2014;Gururaja, Yang, Paige, & Chauvin, 2008;Hicks, Coke, & Li, 2009;Hull et al, 2012;Irwin & Weidmann, 2015;Kiesewetter & Fischer, 2015;Kodate, Ross, Anderson, & Flin, 2012;Kohn, Corrigan, & Donaldson, 2000;Kutzin, 2010;Légaré el al., 2012;Lindamood et al, 2011;Lyk-Jensen et al, 2014;Martinou et al, 2015;Milligan, 2007;Mitchell & Flin, 2008;Nguyen, Elliott, Watson, & Dominguez, 2015;Paige et al, 2014;…”

“…NTS are the cognitive (decision-making, situation-awareness) and interpersonal (communication, teamwork, leadership) skills that underpin technical proficiency (Nguyen, Elliott, Watson, & Dominguez, 2015). These skills require training, and proved to be a necessary equation for error reduction (Flin & Maran, 2015;Gundrosen, Solligård, & Aadahl, 2014;Lyk-Jensen et al, 2014).…”

“…The training of not only technical but also NTS in high-fidelity simulation, is based on the premise that students will be able to integrate and replicate them together and effectively in the solution of reallife clinical challenges (Lyk-Jensen et al, 2014), as it affects knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors about team skills (Robertson et al, 2009) and have been applied extensively throughout healthcare in many specialties and procedures (Dunn et al, 2007) such as anesthesia (Gaba, Howard, Fish, Smith, & Sowb, 2001), emergency medicine (Shapiro et al, 2004), neonatal resuscitation (Thomas et al, 2007), perinatal emergencies (Freeth et al, 2009;Nielsen et al, 2007), critical care air support (Lamb, 2007), and surgery (Chaer et al, 2006).…”

“…Then, Garbee et al (2013) when evaluating the efficacy of using CRM principles and high-fidelity human patient simulation for interprofessional team training of students from undergraduate nursing, nurse anesthesia, medical, and respiratory therapy, suggested it as an effective pedagogy for teaching communication and teamwork skills to interprofessional students' teams; and Lyk-Jensen et al (2014) also reinforce that collaboration on a patient does not solely depend on clinical and technical skills, but of the interaction between professionals and human factors such as nurses' self-insight, attitudes to work and their way of being, as playing a substantial role that affects the clinical work.…”