PS 104: Teamwork and Communication

PS 104: Teamwork and Communication

Topic:
Patient Safety
Format:
Online

Overview

Effective teamwork and communication are critical parts of the design of safe systems. In this course, you’ll learn what makes an effective team through case studies from health care and elsewhere. You’ll analyze the effects of individual behavior for promoting teamwork, communication, and a culture of safety. You will learn several essential communication tools, and you will learn how to prevent common problems associated with lapses in communication during inherently risky health care situations.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

  1. Explain how individual behavior and team dynamics in health care can make care safer or less safe.
  2. Use structured communication techniques to improve communication within health care.
  3. Specify possible interventions to improve patient safety and reduce risk during times of transition. 

Lessons

  • Lesson 1: Fundamentals of Teamwork and Communication
    This lesson discusses why effective team functioning is so critical to protecting patients from harm, including common types of errors associated with ineffective teamwork and communication. You’ll learn to distinguish teams that are working effectively from those that are not.
     
  • Lesson 2: Tools and Techniques for Effective Communication
    This lesson provides specific techniques teams can use to improve their communication, such as SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation), critical language, and briefings.
     
  • Lesson 3: Safety During Transitions Across the Continuum of Care Course
    This lesson reviews some of the most common problems associated with miscommunication during critical transitions in health care — when responsibility for a patient is transferred between providers and/or locations — and how to prevent them.
     

Estimated Time of Completion: 1 hour 15 minutes

Continuing Education Credits

Course completion typically earns 1.25 Continuing Education credits. Please read the full details to ensure that this course offers your desired credit type. Learn more about Continuing Education credits

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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement designates this internet enduring activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity is approved to award 1.25 credit(s) toward Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) recertification.

This activity/program is approved by NAHQ® for 1.25 CPHQ CE credits.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to:

  • 1.25 Medical Knowledge MOC point(s) in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
  • 1.25 MOC point(s) in the American Board of Pediatrics' (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
  • 1.25 point(s) in the CME component of the American Board of Anesthesiology's redesigned Maintenance of Certification in AnesthesiologyTM (MOCA®) program, known as MOCA 2.0®. (Please consult the ABA website, www.theABA.org, for a list of all MOCA 2.0 requirements.)
  • 1.25 point(s) in the American Board of Ophthalmology's Maintenance of Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting MOC credit.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to satisfy the Lifelong Learning requirements for the American Board of Ophthalmology's Maintenance of Certification program.

Successful completion of this activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, offers Lifelong Learning (MOC Part 2 CME) point(s) for the following boards:

  • American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA)*
  • American Board of Allergy & Immunology (ABAI)
  • American Board of Colon & Rectal Surgery (ABCRS)
  • American Board of Pathology (ABPath)
  • American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (ABPN)*
  • American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS)*
  • American Board of Nuclear Medicine (ABNM)
  • American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS)
  • American Board of Urology (ABU)

*Approved as a Foundational Patient Safety Activity for ABA, ABPN, and ABPS

Successful completion of this activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, offers Self-Assessment (MOC Part 2 SA) point(s) for the following boards:

  • American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) (15pts)**
  • American Board of Pediatrics (ABPed) (20pts)**
  • American Board of Ophthalmology (ABOP)
  • American Board of Orthopedic Surgery (ABOS)
  • American Board of Radiology (ABR)
  • American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (ABPMR)

**ABPed and ABFM diplomates are required to complete all the selected courses within an activity to collect MOC activity points.

It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting MOC credit.

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 general continuing education credits.

Members of the College of Family Physicians of Canada are eligible to receive Mainpro+ Certified, Certified Assessment, or Non-Certified credits for participation in this activity due to reciprocal agreement with the American Academy of Family Physicians.

The AAFP has reviewed PS 104: Teamwork and Communication and deemed it acceptable for up to 1.25 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Elective credit(s). Term of Approval is from 06/20/2024 to 06/20/2025. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

For Hamad Medical Corporation Open School users, a DHP licensed practitioner can claim Category 2—Self- Directed Learning—Clinical Practice—Completing Self-Learning Modules by uploading their certificate to the CPD ePortfolio.

By attending PS 104 offered by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement participants may earn up to 1.25 ACHE Qualifying Education Hours toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) designation.

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