What are the non-technical skills used by scrub nurses?: An integrated review

Evelyn Kang; Brigid M Gillespie; Deborah Massey

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What are the non-technical skills used by scrub nurses?: An integrated review

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What are the non-technical skills used by scrub nurses?: An integrated review

Evelyn Kang, Brigid M Gillespie and Deborah Massey

ACORN: the official journal of perioperative nursing in Australia, Vol.27(4), pp.16-25

2014

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Nursing

scrub nurse/nurses/technician

operating room

literature synthesis

non-technical skills

human factors

In 1999, the US Institute of Medicine released a report To err is human: Building a safer health system, which estimates that 44,000 and 98,000 patients die as a result of medical errors in the operating room (OR) annually. Despite dramatic improvements in surgical safety knowledge, at least half of the adverse events occur during surgical care. Human failures (for example, miscommunication, teamwork breakdown, leadership and poor decision making) are not uncommon and often lead to errors in surgery. Retained sponges, wrong site surgery, mismatched organ transplants, or blood transfusion can be the result of human errors resulting in many adverse incidents and accidents. Analysis of adverse events in health care suggests that improvement of non-technical skills may reduce surgical errors and enhance patient outcomes. The term 'non-technical skills' refers to "the cognitive, social and personal resource skills that complement technical skills, and contribute to safe and efficient task performance". Subsumed within non-technical skills are the domains of communication, leadership, teamwork, decision making and situation awareness.

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Title: What are the non-technical skills used by scrub nurses?: An integrated review
Authors: Evelyn Kang (Author) - Griffith University
Brigid M Gillespie (Author) - Griffith University
Deborah Massey (Author) - Griffith University
Publication details: ACORN: the official journal of perioperative nursing in Australia, Vol.27(4), pp.16-25
Publisher: Cambridge Publishing
Date published: 2014
ISSN: 1448-7535; 1448-7535
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450554002621
Output Type: Journal article
Research Statement: false

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