Scrub Practitioners’ list of intra-Operative Non-Technical Skills – SPLINTS
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چکیده
Modern surgery requires a group of people with a variety of skills to work together effectively to deliver patient care. in addition to their technical expertise, members of an operating theatre (OT) team will utilize a range of ‘non-technical’ skills. These are the cognitive and social skills that complement technical skills to achieve safe and efficient practice. Taxonomies of these non-technical skills have already been identified for anaesthetists’ (see Glavin and Patey, Chapter 11 in this volume, Fletcher et al. 2004) and surgeons’ performance (see Yule et al., Chapter 2 in this volume, Yule et al. 2006b) in the intra-operative phase of surgical procedures. Another key member of the theatre team is the scrub (or instrument) nurse, practitioner or technician,1 who works directly with one or more surgeons while they are operating on the patient. as there was no taxonomy of non-technical skills for this member of the scrub team, a research project (funded 2007–2009 by NHS Education Scotland) was established to identify these skills and this chapter will describe the findings of the SPLINTS project to date.
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Evaluation of the Scrub Practitioners ’ List of Intraoperative Non - Technical Skills ( SPLINTS ) system
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