Applying safety lessons from aviation to pre-licensure health professions education : A narrative critical review

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BACKGROUND: Significant numbers of patients continue to be harmed annually by healthcare systems in the United States (US) and around the world. Through a lens of safety, the fields of aviation and healthcare share many similarities in the non-technical skills required by team members, including situational awareness, communication, problem-solving, and leadership. Despite these links and evidence of effective interventions in the clinical setting, there is a lack of a guidance on how to incorporate non-technical skills training into pre-licensure health professions curricula.

METHODS: Following guidance for a narrative critical review, a comprehensive literature search was conducted looking for studies incorporating non-technical skills training including crew resource management (CRM) and human factors and ergonomics (HFE) into pre-licensure health professions curricula.

RESULTS: Eleven example articles were organized into three broad themes: (1) changing the teaching paradigm around errors, (2) targeted curricular interventions, and (3) interprofessional team training. Several useful tools for evaluating training effectiveness were highlighted, but consistent measures of efficacy for CRM/HFE training are lacking. Interprofessional team training may have the most tangible and broadly applicable link to pre-licensure curricula.

IMPLICATIONS: Additional research is needed to identify best practices for consistent incorporation of non-technical skills into pre-licensure curricula. A cultural shift to focus on error management (vs. solely error avoidance) is also needed early in training with development of a common language to discuss patient safety issues and opportunities for improvement across various healthcare settings.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Currents in pharmacy teaching & learning - 12(2020), 8 vom: 18. Aug., Seite 1028-1035

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Malcom, Daniel R [VerfasserIn]
Pate, Adam N [VerfasserIn]
Rowe, A Shaun [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Aviation
Crew resource management
Human factors and ergonomics
Journal Article
Review
Safety

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 24.11.2021

Date Revised 24.11.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.cptl.2020.04.015

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM311436137