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Awareness of Human Factors in the operating theatres during the COVID-19 pandemic
One of the priorities at our large Operating Theatres Department is to support awareness and basic education of the multi-disciplinary teams in clinical Human Factors, to help build competence and capacity in healthcare towards a resilient system. From May 2019 until February 2020, our Human Factors...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7758616/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33292057 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750458920978858 |
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description | One of the priorities at our large Operating Theatres Department is to support awareness and basic education of the multi-disciplinary teams in clinical Human Factors, to help build competence and capacity in healthcare towards a resilient system. From May 2019 until February 2020, our Human Factors Champions embarked on a project called Observation of Non-technical Skills and Teamwork in the operating theatres (ONSeT), to monitor and evaluate the benefits of local Human Factors education. In September 2020, six months after the COVID-19 pandemic hit the UK and caused a major disruption of surgical services, we decided to investigate the usefulness of the project and the impact of COVID-19 in the operating theatres, looking through the eyes of the Human Factors Champions. Results pointed to a consensus about ONSeT having helped during the pandemic, with regards to how teams worked and in enabling team leaders to be more responsive. Human Factors Champions found that feedback on performance was received in a non-threatening way and observation of performance became ‘second nature’. As organisations need to develop critical thinking, we think that the ONSeT project has helped us build some capacity for this, from the front-line onwards. |
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spelling | pubmed-77586162021-01-08 Awareness of Human Factors in the operating theatres during the COVID-19 pandemic Britton, Carolina Relvas Hayman, Gareth Stroud, Nicola J Perioper Pract Original Articles One of the priorities at our large Operating Theatres Department is to support awareness and basic education of the multi-disciplinary teams in clinical Human Factors, to help build competence and capacity in healthcare towards a resilient system. From May 2019 until February 2020, our Human Factors Champions embarked on a project called Observation of Non-technical Skills and Teamwork in the operating theatres (ONSeT), to monitor and evaluate the benefits of local Human Factors education. In September 2020, six months after the COVID-19 pandemic hit the UK and caused a major disruption of surgical services, we decided to investigate the usefulness of the project and the impact of COVID-19 in the operating theatres, looking through the eyes of the Human Factors Champions. Results pointed to a consensus about ONSeT having helped during the pandemic, with regards to how teams worked and in enabling team leaders to be more responsive. Human Factors Champions found that feedback on performance was received in a non-threatening way and observation of performance became ‘second nature’. As organisations need to develop critical thinking, we think that the ONSeT project has helped us build some capacity for this, from the front-line onwards. SAGE Publications 2020-12-08 2021-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7758616/ /pubmed/33292057 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750458920978858 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons CC BY: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Britton, Carolina Relvas Hayman, Gareth Stroud, Nicola Awareness of Human Factors in the operating theatres during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Awareness of Human Factors in the operating theatres during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Awareness of Human Factors in the operating theatres during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Awareness of Human Factors in the operating theatres during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Awareness of Human Factors in the operating theatres during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Awareness of Human Factors in the operating theatres during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | awareness of human factors in the operating theatres during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7758616/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33292057 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750458920978858 |
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