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Expanding the non-technical skills vocabulary of operating room nurses: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Operating room nurses have specialised technical and non-technical skills and are essential members of the surgical team. The profession’s dependency of tacit knowledge has made their non-technical skills difficult to access for researchers, thus, creating limitations in the identificati...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10507908/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37723549 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01500-9 |
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author | Sirevåg, Irene Tjoflåt, Ingrid Hansen, Britt Sætre |
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description | BACKGROUND: Operating room nurses have specialised technical and non-technical skills and are essential members of the surgical team. The profession’s dependency of tacit knowledge has made their non-technical skills difficult to access for researchers, thus, creating limitations in the identification of the non-technical skills of operating room nurses. Non-technical skills are categorised in the crew resource management framework, and previously, non-technical skills of operating room nurses have been identified within the scope of the framework. The purpose of this study is to explore operating room nurses’ descriptions of their practices in search for non-technical skills not included in the crew resource management framework. METHODS: This study has a qualitative design. An expert panel of experienced operating room nurses (N = 96) in Norway provided qualitative descriptions of their practice in a Delphi survey. The data were analysed in an inductive thematic analysis. This study was conducted and reported in line with Standards for Reporting Qualitative Research (SRQR). RESULTS: The inductive thematic analysis developed two themes, ‘Ethical competence’ and ‘Professional accountability’, that encompass operating room nurses’ novel descriptions of their non-technical skills. The participants take pride in having the patients’ best interest as their main objective even if this may threaten their position in the team. CONCLUSIONS: This study has identified novel non-technical skills that are not described in the crew resource management framework. These findings will contribute to the development of a new behavioural marker system for the non-technical skills of operating room nurses. This system will facilitate verbalisation of tacit knowledge and contribute to an increased knowledge about the operating room nursing profession. |
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spelling | pubmed-105079082023-09-20 Expanding the non-technical skills vocabulary of operating room nurses: a qualitative study Sirevåg, Irene Tjoflåt, Ingrid Hansen, Britt Sætre BMC Nurs Research BACKGROUND: Operating room nurses have specialised technical and non-technical skills and are essential members of the surgical team. The profession’s dependency of tacit knowledge has made their non-technical skills difficult to access for researchers, thus, creating limitations in the identification of the non-technical skills of operating room nurses. Non-technical skills are categorised in the crew resource management framework, and previously, non-technical skills of operating room nurses have been identified within the scope of the framework. The purpose of this study is to explore operating room nurses’ descriptions of their practices in search for non-technical skills not included in the crew resource management framework. METHODS: This study has a qualitative design. An expert panel of experienced operating room nurses (N = 96) in Norway provided qualitative descriptions of their practice in a Delphi survey. The data were analysed in an inductive thematic analysis. This study was conducted and reported in line with Standards for Reporting Qualitative Research (SRQR). RESULTS: The inductive thematic analysis developed two themes, ‘Ethical competence’ and ‘Professional accountability’, that encompass operating room nurses’ novel descriptions of their non-technical skills. The participants take pride in having the patients’ best interest as their main objective even if this may threaten their position in the team. CONCLUSIONS: This study has identified novel non-technical skills that are not described in the crew resource management framework. These findings will contribute to the development of a new behavioural marker system for the non-technical skills of operating room nurses. This system will facilitate verbalisation of tacit knowledge and contribute to an increased knowledge about the operating room nursing profession. BioMed Central 2023-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10507908/ /pubmed/37723549 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01500-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Sirevåg, Irene Tjoflåt, Ingrid Hansen, Britt Sætre Expanding the non-technical skills vocabulary of operating room nurses: a qualitative study |
title | Expanding the non-technical skills vocabulary of operating room nurses: a qualitative study |
title_full | Expanding the non-technical skills vocabulary of operating room nurses: a qualitative study |
title_fullStr | Expanding the non-technical skills vocabulary of operating room nurses: a qualitative study |
title_full_unstemmed | Expanding the non-technical skills vocabulary of operating room nurses: a qualitative study |
title_short | Expanding the non-technical skills vocabulary of operating room nurses: a qualitative study |
title_sort | expanding the non-technical skills vocabulary of operating room nurses: a qualitative study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10507908/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37723549 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01500-9 |
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