A Medicare quality improvement organization is looking for long-term care providers to pilot its new teamwork training program, TeamSTEPPS. According to the program’s website, it aims to optimize ...

Providing optimal healthcare requires an interprofessional (IP) team-based approach. For patients and families with special healthcare needs, increased complexity and frequency of care necessitates ...

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When it comes to improving patient safety and care quality, it takes teamwork--within hospitals and among hospitals--to achieve success. For instance, a hospital can improve its safety culture through ...

Innovative training program for dementia home caregivers calls for a team-based approach. Team-centered training is the foundation of an innovative new training program designed to help home care ...

Unique collaborative education model gets doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals working together from the get-go. Future nurses work with future doctors in clinical rotations for an ...

It's so easy to think you've communicated a message clearly. After all, you understand the instructions, so it only stands to reason that the person receiving them must also understand what you meant.

Health care is a team sport. From nursing to imaging, techs to doctors, it’s important that everyone involved in patient care knows how to work together. That’s why Harper College’s Simulation ...

The healthcare system is highly interdependent and has many facets, from work put in by the paramedics and first responders to the doctors waiting patiently at the hospital to save lives. Delivering ...

Evans Army Community Hospital staff met with pilots of the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade to observe a different perspective on team coordination Dec. 1. The hospital's staff members who participated in ...

Training OR staff on how to work as a team markedly reduces hospital mortality rates, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A specific team-training program, ...