Non-technical skills for scrub practitioners.

Scrub Practitioners’ list of intra-Operative Non-Technical Skills – SPLINTS

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-techn...

Evaluation of the Scrub Practitioners ’ List of Intraoperative Non - Technical Skills ( SPLINTS ) system

Non-technical skills of the operating theatre scrub nurse: literature review.

AIM This paper is a report of a review to identify the non-technical (cognitive and social) skills used by scrub nurses. BACKGROUND Recognition that failures in non-technical skills contributed to accidents in high-risk industries led to the development of research programmes to study the role of cognition and social interactions in operational safety. Recently, psychological research in oper...

Prospective observational study to evaluate NOTSS (Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons) for assessing trainees' non-technical performance in the operating theatre.

BACKGROUND Most surgical assessment has been aimed at technical proficiency. However, non-technical skills also affect patient safety and clinical effectiveness. The NOTSS (Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons) assessment instrument was developed specifically to assess the non-technical skills of individual surgeons in the operating theatre. This study evaluated NOTSS as a real-world assessment, w...

Educational Needs of Medical Records Practitioners in Isfahan Teaching Hospitals

Introduction: Need assessment through testing the staff's skills and knowledge reveals the gap between the present and optimal situation and helps prioritize job needs. Educational need assessment is an essential step in developing educational programs and improving human resources' skills and knowledge. So this research was done to determine educational needs of medical records practitioners' ...