Bachelor of nursing students' experiences of a longitudinal team training intervention and the use of teamwork skills in clinical practice-A qualitative descriptive study.

Aims: To describe nursing students' experiences of a TeamSTEPPS® longitudinal team training program and the application of teamwork skills in clinical practice.

Design: A descriptive qualitative design.

Methods: Overall, 22 nursing students participated in six online focus group interviews after attending a TeamSTEPPS® team training program from their first semester.

Healthcare professionals' perceptions of patient safety culture and teamwork in intrapartum care: a cross-sectional study.

Background: In complex healthcare organizations, such as intrapartum care, both patient safety culture and teamwork are important aspects of patient safety. Patient safety culture is important for the values and norms shared by interprofessional teams in an organization, and such values are principles that guide team members' behavior. The aim of this study was 1) to investigate differences in perceptions of patient safety culture and teamwork between professions (midwives, physicians, nursing assistants) and between labor wards in intrapartum care and 2) to explore the potential associations between teamwork and overall perceptions of patient safety and frequency of events reported.

Patients' Perceptions of Quality of Care: A Teamwork Intervention Study in a Surgical Ward.

Introduction: Improving teamwork competencies among health care professionals is important for patient safety. Few previous studies have investigated whether a teamwork intervention has an impact on patients' perceptions of quality of care.

Objective: To investigate patients' perceptions of quality of care before and after the implementation of a team training program in a surgical ward.

Bachelor of nursing students' attitudes toward teamwork in healthcare: The impact of implementing a teamSTEPPS® team training program - A longitudinal, quasi-experimental study.

Background: Teamwork skills are essential to the quality of care and patient safety; nevertheless, team training is limited in Bachelor of Nursing degree programs in Norway.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to explore the impact of implementing a TeamSTEPPS® team training intervention on Bachelor of Nursing students' attitudes toward teamwork in health care.

Design: A longitudinal quasi-experimental design with pre- and posttests was used.

Adverse events in women giving birth in a labor ward: a retrospective record review study.

Background: Childbirth could negatively affect the woman's health through adverse events. To prevent adverse events and increase patient safety it is important to detect and learn from them. The aim of the study was to describe adverse events, including the preventability and severity of harm during planned vaginal births, in women giving birth in the labor ward.

Reliability and structural validity of the Norwegian version of the TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Attitudes Questionnaire: A cross-sectional study among Bachelor of Nursing students.

Aim: To test the reliability and structural validity of the Norwegian version of the TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Attitudes Questionnaire (T-TAQ) among Bachelor of Nursing students.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Methods: Bachelor of Nursing students (N = 1,624) at three campuses in different regions of Norway were invited to complete the survey.

A human factors intervention in a hospital - evaluating the outcome of a TeamSTEPPS program in a surgical ward.

Background: Patient safety in hospitals is being jeopardized, since too many patients experience adverse events. Most of these adverse events arise from human factors, such as inefficient teamwork and communication failures, and the incidence of adverse events is greatest in the surgical area. Previous research has shown the effect of team training on patient safety culture and on different areas of teamwork.

The Swedish version of the TeamSTEPPS® teamwork attitudes questionnaire (T-TAQ): A validation study.

Background: Effective teamwork is essential for delivering safe health care. It is important to increase patient safety in healthcare by conducting interprofessional team training with both healthcare professionals and undergraduate students. Validated questionnaires that evaluate team training activities contribute to valuable knowledge regarding changes in attitudes toward teamwork.

The Swedish Version of the TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Perceptions Questionnaire (T-TPQ): A Validation Study.

Purpose: The delivery of effective and safe healthcare to patients is highly dependent on careful collaboration between healthcare professionals. Although teamwork is an important component for patient safety, effective teamwork is not always carried out in hospital wards, leading to negative consequences for the patients. Teamwork measurements can be used to evaluate and provide feedback to healthcare professionals to support team performance and to identify areas for improvement.

Healthcare professionals' perceptions of patient safety for the woman in childbirth in Sweden - An interview study.

Aim: To describe healthcare professionals' perceptions of patient safety with a focus on the woman in connection to childbirth.

Design: A descriptive and qualitative design with a phenomenographic approach.

Methods: Individual qualitative face-to-face interviews with 19 healthcare professionals (midwives, nursing assistants and physicians) were conducted in three labour wards in Sweden.

An interprofessional team training intervention with an implementation phase in a surgical ward: A controlled quasi-experimental study.

Despite a growing awareness of the importance of interprofessional teamwork in relation to patient safety, many hospital units lack effective teamwork. The aim of this study was to explore if an interprofessional teamwork intervention in a surgical ward changed the healthcare personnel's perceptions of patient safety culture, perceptions of teamwork, and attitudes toward teamwork over 12 months. Healthcare personnel from surgical wards at two hospitals participated in a controlled quasi-experimental study.

A complex teamwork intervention in a surgical ward in Norway.

Objectives: Interprofessional team training has a positive impact on team behavior and patient safety culture. The overall objective of the study was to explore the impact of an interprofessional teamwork intervention in a surgical ward on structure, process and outcome. In this paper, the implementation of the teamwork intervention is reported to expand the understanding of the future evaluation results of this study.

Cross-cultural validation and psychometric testing of the Norwegian version of TeamSTEPPS teamwork attitude questionnaire.

Healthcare professionals' attitudes play a significant role in influencing team behavior, and thereby affect the quality and safety of patient care. Culturally adapted and validated questionnaires may contribute valuable knowledge of professionals' attitudes toward teamwork. The aim of the study was to translate and cross-validate the TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Attitude Questionnaire (T-TAQ) into Norwegian, and to test the questionnaire for psychometric properties among Norwegian healthcare professionals.

Collaboration and Satisfaction About Care Decisions in Team questionnaire-Psychometric testing of the Norwegian version, and hospital healthcare personnel perceptions across hospital units.

Aim: To translate "The Collaboration and Satisfaction About Care Decisions in Team" questionnaire (CSACD-T) into Norwegian and test it for psychometric properties. The further aim was to describe and compare healthcare personnel's collaboration and satisfaction about team decision-making (TDM) across hospital units.

Design: A cross-sectional study.

Cross-cultural validation and psychometric testing of the Norwegian version of the TeamSTEPPS® teamwork perceptions questionnaire.

Background: Teamwork is an integrated part of today's specialized and complex healthcare and essential to patient safety, and is considered as a core competency to improve twenty-first century healthcare. Teamwork measurements and evaluations show promising results to promote good team performance, and are recommended for identifying areas for improvement. The validated TeamSTEPPS® Teamwork Perception Questionnaire (T-TPQ) was found suitable for cross-cultural validation and testing in a Norwegian context.

"Teamwork in hospitals": a quasi-experimental study protocol applying a human factors approach.

Background: Effective teamwork and sufficient communication are critical components essential to patient safety in today's specialized and complex healthcare services. Team training is important for an improved efficiency in inter-professional teamwork within hospitals, however the scientific rigor of studies must be strengthen and more research is required to compare studies across samples, settings and countries. The aims of the study are to translate and validate teamwork questionnaires and investigate healthcare personnel's perception of teamwork in hospitals (Part 1).

Health-related quality of life, sense of coherence and leisure-time physical activity in women after an acute myocardial infarction.

Aims And Objectives: To examine the relationship between leisure-time physical activity, health-related quality of life and sense of coherence in women after an acute myocardial infarction, and further to investigate whether these aspects were associated with age.

Background: Physical activity and health-related quality of life are vital aspects for patients after an acute myocardial infarction.

Design: Cross-sectional.

Relatives of Inpatients Suffering from Severe Depression: Their Burden and Encounters with the Psychiatric Health Services.

The aim was to investigate relatives of inpatients with severe depression - their perceptions of encountering psychiatric specialist health services and their degree of burden. Sixty-eight relatives recruited via hospital wards and community specialist health centers responded to a questionnaire, with questions from the Quality from the Patients Perspective modified to relatives and the Burden Assessment Scale. Relatives recruited via community specialist health centers perceived less received information and support than those recruited via hospital wards.

Clinical nursing leaders' perceptions of nutrition quality indicators in Swedish stroke wards: a national survey.

Aim: To describe nursing leaders' perceptions of nutrition quality in Swedish stroke wards.

Background: A high risk of undernutrition places great demand on nutritional care in stroke wards. Evidence-based guidelines exist, but healthcare professionals have reported low interest in nutritional care.

Exploring intensive care nurses' team performance in a simulation-based emergency situation, - expert raters' assessments versus self-assessments: an explorative study.

Background: Effective teamwork has proven to be crucial for providing safe care. The performance of emergencies in general and cardiac arrest situations in particular, has been criticized for primarily focusing on the individual's technical skills and too little on the teams' performance of non-technical skills. The aim of the study was to explore intensive care nurses' team performance in a simulation-based emergency situation by using expert raters' assessments and nurses' self-assessments in relation to different intensive care specialties.

Psychometric testing of the Norwegian version of the questionnaire, student satisfaction and self-confidence in learning, used in simulation.

Simulation is increasingly being used as an approach to learning in nurse education. There is a need for frameworks and valid evaluation tools to help guide educators in implementing the method. The questionnaire, Student Satisfaction and Self-Confidence in Learning, which consists of two subscales, has been developed by the National League for Nursing in the US for evaluating simulation used in nurse education.

Living in a family with a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a phenomenographic study.

Aims And Objectives: To describe experiences of everyday life in families with a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Background: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a highly prevalent, clinically heterogeneous disorder characterised by behavioural symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity that creates impairments for the child and affects the family life. The impairments vary with age and context, and the same symptoms do not necessarily have the same effects in different contexts and persons.

Parental perception of family functioning in everyday life with a child with ADHD.

Aim: The aim of this study was to describe and investigate family characteristics in relation to support, behaviour of the child, family functioning and sense of coherence from the parents' perspective in families with a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A further aim was to explore predictors of family functioning.

Methods: The study population consisted of 1964 parents of children with ADHD aged 15 years old and younger.

Intensive care unit nurses' evaluation of simulation used for team training.

Aim: To implement a simulation-based team training programme and to investigate intensive care nurses' evaluations of simulation used for team training.

Background: Simulation-based training is recommended to make health care professionals aware of and understand the importance of teamwork related to patient safety.

Design: The study was based on a questionnaire evaluation design.

Intensive care nurses' perceptions of simulation-based team training for building patient safety in intensive care: a descriptive qualitative study.

Objectives: To describe intensive care nurses' perceptions of simulation-based team training for building patient safety in intensive care.

Background: Failures in team processes are found to be contributory factors to incidents in an intensive care environment. Simulation-based training is recommended as a method to make health-care personnel aware of the importance of team working and to improve their competencies.