TeamSTEPPS Long-Term Care Essentials Course
Classroom Slides
Contents:
Slide 1: TeamSTEPPS® Essentials Course
Slide 2: Team Competency Outcomes
Slide 3: Key Principles
Slide 4: Multi-Team System For Patient Care
Slide 5: Effective Team Leaders
Slide 6: Team Events
Slide 7: Brief Checklist
Slide 8: Debrief Checklist
Slide 9: Situation Monitoring Process
Slide 10: Cross Monitoring
Slide 11: STEP
Slide 12: STEP
Slide 13: I'M SAFE Checklist
Slide 14: Task Assistance
Slide 15: Feedback
Slide 16: Advocacy and Assertion
Slide 17: Two-Challenge Rule
Slide 18: CUS
Slide 19: DESC Script
Slide 20: Collaboration
Slide 21: SBAR
Slide 22: Call-Out
Slide 23: Check-Back
Slide 24: Handoff
Slide 25: Handoff
Slide 26: Team Performance Observation Tool
Slide 27: Barriers, Tools & Strategies, and Outcomes
Slide 28: Identifying Opportunities to Use TeamSTEPPS Tools and Strategies
Slide 1:
TeamSTEPPS® Essentials Course
TeamSTEPPS: Strategies & Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety
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Slide 2: Team Competency Outcomes
Knowledge
Attitudes
- Mutual Trust.
- Team Orientation.
Performance
- Adaptability.
- Accuracy.
- Productivity.
- Efficiency.
- Safety.
TeamSTEPPS is composed of four teachable-learnable skills: Leadership, Situation Monitoring, Mutual Support, and Communication: the core of the TeamSTEPPS framework. The arrows depict a two-way dynamic interplay between the four skills and the team-related outcomes. Interaction between the outcomes and skills is the basis of a team striving to deliver safe, quality care. Encircling the four skills is the resident care team, which not only represents the resident and direct caregivers but also those who play a supportive role within the health care delivery system.
...TeamSTEPPS is an evidence-based framework to optimize team performance across the health care delivery system.
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Slide 3: Key Principles
Team Structure
Delineates fundamentals such as team size, membership, leadership, composition, identification, and distribution.
Leadership
Ability to coordinate the activities of team members by ensuring team actions are understood, changes in information are shared, and team members have the necessary resources.
Situation Monitoring
Process of actively scanning and assessing situational elements to gain information or understanding, or to maintain awareness to support functioning of the team.
Mutual Support
Ability to anticipate and support other team members' needs through accurate knowledge about their responsibilities and workload.
Communication
Process by which information is clearly and accurately exchanged among team members.
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Slide 4: Multi-Team System For Resident Care
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Slide 5: Effective Team Leaders
- Organize the team.
- Articulate clear goals.
- Make decisions through collective input of members.
- Empower members to speak up and challenge, when appropriate.
- Actively promote and facilitate good teamwork.
- Can resolve conflicts effectively.
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Slide 6: Team Events
Planning
- Brief — Short session prior to start to discuss team formation; assign essential roles; establish expectations and climate; anticipate outcomes and likely contingencies.
Problem Solving
- Huddle — Ad hoc planning to reestablish situation awareness; reinforce plans already in place; and assess the need to adjust the plan.
Process Improvement
- Debrief — Informal information exchange session designed to improve team performance and effectiveness; after action review.
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Slide 7: Brief Checklist
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During the brief, the team should address the following questions:
- Who is on the team?
- All members understand and agree upon goals?
- Roles and responsibilities are understood?
- What is our plan of care?
- Staff and provider's availability throughout the shift?
- Workload among team members?
- Availability of resources?
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Slide 8: Debrief Checklist
The team should address the following questions during a debrief:
- Communication clear?
- Roles and responsibilities understood?
- Situation awareness maintained?
- Workload distribution equitable?
- Task assistance requested or offered?
- Were errors made or avoided? Availability of resources?
- What went well, what should change, what should improve?
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Slide 9: Situation Monitoring Process
Situation monitoring is the process of continually scanning and assessing what's going on around you to maintain situation awareness.
Situation awareness is "knowing what is going on around you."
With a shared mental model, all team members are "on the same page."
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Slide 10: Cross-Monitoring
An error reduction strategy that involves:
- Monitoring actions of other team members.
- Providing a safety net within the team.
- Ensuring that mistakes or oversights are caught quickly and easily.
- "Watching each other's back."
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Slide 11: STEP
A tool for monitoring situations in the delivery of health care
Components of Situation Monitoring:
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Slide 12: STEP
√ Assess Status of Resident
Resident History
Vital Signs
Medications
Physical Exam
Plan of Care
Psychosocial
√ Assess Level of Team Members'
Fatigue
Workload
Task Performance
Skill
Stress
√ Assess Environment
Facility Information
Administrative Information
Human Resources
Acuity of Residents and Team Members' Assignments
Equipment
√ Assess Progress Toward Goal
Status of Team's Resident(s)?
Established Goals of Team?
Tasks/Actions of Team?
Plan Still Appropriate?
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Slide 13: I'M SAFE Checklist
√ I = Illness
√M = Medication
√S = Stress
√A = Alcohol and Drugs
√F = Fatigue
√E = Eating and Elimination
An individual team member's responsibility...
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Slide 14: Task Assistance
A form of mutual support:
- Team members protect each other from work overload situations.
- Effective teams place all offers and requests for assistance in the context of resident safety.
- Team members foster a climate where it is expected that assistance will be actively sought and offered.
In support of resident safety, it's expected!
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Slide 15: Feedback
Information provided for the purpose of improving team performance
√ Feedback should be:
Timely — given soon after the target behavior has occurred.
Respectful — focus on behaviors, not personal attributes.
Specific — be specific about what behaviors need correcting.
Directed toward improvement — provide directions for future improvement.
Considerate — consider a team member's feelings and deliver negative information with fairness and respect.
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Slide 16: Advocacy and Assertion
Advocate for the resident
- Invoked when team members' viewpoints don't coincide with that of the decisionmaker.
Assert a corrective action in a firm and respectful manner
- Make an opening.
- State the concern.
- Offer a solution.
- Obtain an agreement.
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Slide 17: Two-Challenge Rule
When an initial assertion is ignored:
- It is your responsibility to assertively voice concern at least two times to ensure it has been heard.
- The team member being challenged must acknowledge.
- If the outcome is still not acceptable:
- Take a stronger course of action.
- Use supervisor or chain of command.
Empowers all team members to "stop the line" if they sense or discover an essential safety breach.
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Slide 18: CUS
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Slide 19: DESC Script
A constructive approach for managing and resolving conflict:
D — Describe the specific situation or behavior; provide concrete data.
E — Express how the situation makes you feel/what your concerns are.
S — Suggest other alternatives and seek agreement.
C — Consequences should be stated in terms of impact on established team goals; strive for consensus.
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Slide 20: Collaboration
Achieves a mutually satisfying solution resulting in the best outcome
- Win-Win-Win for Resident Care Team (includes the resident, team members, and team.)
- Commitment to a common mission.
Meet goals without compromising relationships.
"True collaboration is a process, not an event"
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Slide 21: SBAR
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A technique for communicating critical information that requires immediate attention and action concerning a resident's condition
Situation — What is going on with the resident?
"I am calling about Mrs. Mary Smith, 88 years old, who has had a change in condition. She has a new onset of confusion, has developed a cough, ate very little today, and has been refusing all extra fluids."
Background — What is the clinical background or context?
"Mrs. Smith has type 2 diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, cataracts, stress incontinence, and mild cognitive mpairment."
Assessment — What do I think the problem is?
"She is lethargic but responsive to simple verbal commands. She has a dry cough and on auscultation of her lungs has some rhonchi in the right base. Her urine looked cloudy."
Recommendation and Request — What would I do to correct it?
"I am wondering if she is starting with a UTI or a respiratory infection. I think she is stable to stay here but should we get a urine sample, chest x ray, or any lab work?"
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Slide 22: Call-Out
Strategy used to communicate important or critical information
- Informs all team members simultaneously during emergent situations.
- Helps team members anticipate next steps.
- Important to direct responsibility to a specific individual responsible for carrying out the task.
Example during an incoming trauma:
Leader: "Airway status?"
Resident: "Airway clear"
Leader: "Breath sounds?"
Resident: "Breath sounds decreased on right"
Leader: "Blood pressure?"
Nurse: "BP is 96/62"
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Slide 23: Check-Back
Process of using closed-loop communication to ensure that information conveyed by the sender is understood by the receiver as intended.
The steps include the following:
- Sender initiates the message
- Receiver accepts the message and provides feedback
- Sender double-checks to ensure that the message was received
Example:
Nurse:"Apply 2 liters of oxygen via nasal cannula."
Nursing Assistant: "2 liters oxygen via nasal cannula."
Nurse:"Yes, that’s correct."
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Slide 24: Handoff
The transfer of information (along with authority and responsibility) during transitions in care across the continuum; to include an opportunity to ask questions, clarify, and confirm.
Examples of transitions in care include shift changes, physicians transferring complete responsibility, and resident transfers.
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Slide 25: Handoff
Strategy designed to enhance information exchange during transitions in care.
| Initial |
Stands for... |
| I |
Introduction—Introduce yourself and your role/job (include patient) |
| P |
Patient—Name identifiers, age, sex, location. |
| A |
Assessment—Present chief complaint, vital signs, symptoms, diagnosis. |
| S |
Situation—Current status/circumstances, including code status, level of (un)certainty, recent changes, response treatment. |
| S |
Safety concerns—critical lab values/reports, socioeconomic factors, allergies, alerts (falls, isolation, etc.). |
| THE |
| B |
Background—Comorbidities, previous episodes, medications, family history. |
| A |
Actions—What actions were taken or are required? Provide brief rationale. |
| T |
Timing—urgency explicit timing prioritization actions. |
| O |
Ownership—Who responsible (person/team) patient/family? |
| N |
Next—will happen next? Anticipated changes? plan? there contingency plans?" |
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Slide 26: Team Performance Observation Tool
Team Structure
Assembles team.
Establishes leader.
Identifies team goals and vision.
Assigns roles and responsibilities.
Holds team accountable.
Actively shares information. |
Leadership
Utilizes resources to maximize performance.
Balances workload within the team.
Delegates tasks or assignments, as appropriate.
Conducts briefs, huddles, and debriefs.
Empowers team to speak freely and ask questions. |
Situation Monitoring
Includes resident/family in communication.
Cross-monitors team members.
Applies the STEP process.
Fosters communication to ensure a shared mental model. |
Mutual Support
Provides task-related support.
Provides timely and constructive feedback.
Effectively advocates for the resident.
Uses the Two-Challenge rule, CUS, and DESC script to resolve conflict.
Collaborates with team. |
Communication
Routinely provides coaching feedback routinely provided to team members when appropriate.
Provides brief, clear, specific, and timely information.
Seeks information from all available sources.
Verifies information that is communicated.
Uses SBAR, call-outs, check-backs, and handoff techniques. |
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Slide 27: Barriers, Tools and Strategies,
and Outcomes
| Barriers |
Tools and Strategies |
Outcomes |
- Inconsistency in Team Membership.
- Lack of Time.
- Lack of Information Sharing.
- Hierarchy.
- Defensiveness.
- Conventional Thinking.
- Complacency.
- Varying Communication Styles.
- Conflict.
- Lack of Coordination and Followup With
Co-Workers.
- Distractions.
- Fatigue.
- Workload.
- Misinterpretation of Cues.
- Lack of Role Clarity.
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- Brief.
- Huddle.
- Debrief.
- STEP.
- Cross-Monitoring.
- Feedback.
- Advocacy and Assertion.
- Two-Challenge Rule.
- CUS.
- DESC Script.
- Collaboration.
- SBAR.
- Call-Out.
- Check-Back.
- Handoff.
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- Shared Mental Model.
- Adaptability.
- Team Orientation.
- Mutual Trust.
- Team Performance.
- Resident Safety!
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Slide 28: Identifying Opportunities To Use TeamSTEPPS
Tools and Strategies
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Opportunity to apply
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