Soring to Success: Taking Crew Resource Management from the Cockpit to the Nursing Unit - Softcover

Sculli, Gary L.; Sine, David M.

9781601467836: Soring to Success: Taking Crew Resource Management from the Cockpit to the Nursing Unit

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ISBN 10: 1601467834 ISBN 13: 9781601467836

Publisher: Hcpro Inc, 2010

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Soaring to Success: Taking Crew Resource Management from the Cockpit to the Nursing Unit
Gary L. Sculli, RN, MSN, ATP; David M. Sine, MA, ARM, CSP, CPHRM

Apply proven crew resource management principles to nursing care

This book is awesome. It should be must reading for all nurse managers and healthcare leaders.
"- Theresa (Tess) M. Pape, PhD, RN, CNOR, Associate Professor of Nursing, Texas Woman s University, Denton, TX. "

Written by a former airline pilot turned nurse and a risk management expert, this practical resource offers solutions to managing longstanding challenges in patient care by applying the practices of crew resource management. This one-of-a-kind resource uses engaging case studies and real-life examples to provide a framework for improving communication and patient safety. This is the first book to apply the principles of crew resource management directly to nursing.

Foreword by Jim Bagian, MD, PE, former NASA astronaut, and world renowned expert in patient safety, He is a director of the Center for Health Engineering and Patient Safety and chief patient safety and systems innovation office at the University of Michigan. He is the founding director of the VA National Center for Patient Safety.Benefits:

Apply innovative solutions to medication administration, report, patient handoff challenges, and interdisciplinary communication
Streamline patient care activities with crew resource management-based tools (e.g., checklists)
Become a better leader and develop improved communication through team building strategies
Empower staff to make the right decisions at the right time

This book will help you:

Describe the professional cultures of aviation and nursing
Identify the way nursing culture contributes to patient safety
Describe the origins of crew resource management
Discuss how the principles of crew resource management can be applied to nursing
Describe the influence of poor leadership on team effectiveness
Identify the characteristics of good leadership
Discuss strategies for improving teamwork
List leadership behaviors that encourage open communication
Identify how nurse leaders set the tone for a unit
Explain the principles of leadership briefings
Describe how nursing unit briefings improve teamwork
Identify how hint and hope communication leads to errors
Describe how effective followership involves taking an active role in communication
List standardized communication techniques nurses can use
Identify the dangers posed by low situational awareness
Discuss how the nursing environment makes situational awareness difficult
List strategies nurses can use to increase situational awareness
Explain the sterile cockpit principle
Describe how sterile cockpit principles can be applied to nursing
Explain how checklists improve patient safety
Describe strategies for developing and using checklists in the nursing environment
Develop a model for ongoing skills and team training in nursing practice

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Nursing and Aviation: A Culture Comparison
Chapter 2: What is Crew Resource Management?
Chapter 3: Behave Like a Leader: Value Your Team
Chapter 4: Get Connected and Set the Tone
Chapter 5: Improve Team Cohesiveness With Briefings
Chapter 6: Followership: Putting an End to Hint and Hope Communication
Chapter 7: Situational Awareness: Making Clinical Decisions in the Nursing Environment
Chapter 8: The Sterile Cockpit Concept in Nursing Practice
Chapter 9: Developing Checklists for Nursing Units Supplement: Building an Airline-Based Recurrent Training Model for Nursing Practice
BONUS TOOLS!

This book also includes bonus online tools you can put to use immediately!

Nursing team briefing checklist: Nurse to Nursing Assistant
Sample Med-Surg unstable patient checklist
Sample medication administration checklist
Sample IV insertion checklist
Assertive communication algorithm
Situational awareness strategies

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About the Author

Gary L. Sculli, RN, MSN, ATP, brings a unique and diverse perspective to patient safety. He has been a registered nurse for more than 24 years and has worked in multiple clinical specialties. He has experience in nursing education and leadership, and served as an officer in the United States Air Force Nurse Corps. Sculli is also a former airline pilot for a major U.S. airline and has developed and taught crew resource management (CRM) programs. He currentlyworks in patient safety on a national level, developingclinical programs that outline theapplication ofCRM and human factorsin nursing practice toreduce patient harm.

David M. Sine, MA, ARM, CSP, CPHRM, has more than 30 years of healthcare safety and risk management experience in private and public sector health systems. He currently serves as a member of The Joint Commission s Committee on Healthcare Safety, and acts as a risk management and patient safety advisor to the National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems. Sine was formerly a senior staff engineer for The Joint Commission, a senior consultant for the American Hospital Association, and a vice-chair of the board of Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, TX."

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