Measuring teamwork and conflict among emergency medical techinican personnel
OBJECTIVE: We sought to develop a reliable and valid tool for measuring teamwork among emergency medical technician (EMT) partnerships.
METHODS: We adapted existing scales and developed new items to measure components of teamwork. After recruiting a convenience sample of 39 agencies, we tested a 122-item draft survey tool (EMT-TEAMWORK). We performed a series of exploratory factor analyses (EFAs) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to test reliability and construct validity, describing variation in domain and global scores using descriptive statistics.
Measuring attitudes related to interdisciplinary training: Revisiting the Heinemann, Schmitt and Farrell 'attitudes toward health care teams' scale
Summary Findings from an exploratory factor analysis on the 21 item 'attitudes towards health care teams' (Heinemann et al. , 1999) are reported. Using data collected as part of an innovative educational program on geriatric team training program in the United States we report an exploratory factor analyses for 913 student trainees. The geriatric interdisciplinary team training (GITT) program funded by a United States philanthropic foundation, The John A. Hartford Foundation of New York City, requires medicine, nursing, and social work students to learn about geriatric teams.
Aston Team Performance Inventory
The Aston Team Performance Inventory (ATPI) is the most comprehensive measure of team performance available. Developed from over ten years of research into team effectiveness by Professor Michael West and his team at Aston University, the ATPI identifies and measures the key elements of effective team working at both team and organisational levels.
A multicentre observational study to evaluate a new tool to assess emergency physicians' non-technical skills
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate a new tool to assess emergency physicians' non-technical skills.
Development and Maintenance of an Interdisciplinary Health Care Team
Realizing maximum independence for older persons requires understanding and collaboration among health professionals. Unfortunately, health professionals are often assigned to teams with no thought of preparatory team training. This paper is based on a case study which was an initial test of a conceptual model that depicts how an interdisciplinary health care team develops and maintains itself. It is a study of a 13 year-old interdisciplinary geriatrics team with no external or externally mandated leadership.
Interprofessional Education for Collaboration: Learning How to Improve Health from Interprofessional Models Across the Continuum of Education to Practice: Workshop Summary
Every year, the Global Forum undertakes two workshops whose topics are selected by the more than 55 members of the Forum. It was decided in this first year of the Forum's existence that the workshops should lay the foundation for future work of the Forum and the topic that could best provide this base of understanding was "interprofessional education." The first workshop took place August 29-30, 2012, and the second was on November 29-30, 2012. Both workshops focused on linkages between interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice.
The Many Facets of Functional Leadership on a Long Term Interdisciplinary Health Care Team
This paper was originally published in the Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Interdisciplinary Health Team Care Conference, which took place September 20-22, 1990 at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is reproduced here with the permission of the author.
Measuring attitudes related to interdisciplinary training: revisiting the Heinemann, Schmitt and Farrell `attitudes toward health care teams’ scale
Findings from an exploratory factor analysis on the 21 item `attitudes towards health
Keeping patients safe: Transforming the work environment of nurses
Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses identifies solutions to problems in hospital, nursing home, and other health care organization work environments that threaten patient safety through their effect on nursing care.
A companion to the Institute of Medicine's earlier patient safety report, To Err is Human, the report puts forth a blueprint of actions that all health care organizations which rely on nurses should take.
The interprofessional healthcare team:Leadership and Development
The Interprofessional Health Care Team: Leadership and Development
explores theoretical concepts of leadership in an interdisciplinary health
care environment and provides practical examples of these concepts
from the perspective of health care scholars, scientists, faculty, and
health administration professionals. This valuable resource will help
healthcare students and professionals to be prepared for future
collaboration with those of other related disciplines in order to develop
