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Assessing Perceptions of Teamwork Quality Among Perioperative Team Members
Author(s) -
Müller Patrick,
Tschan Franziska,
Keller Sandra,
Seelandt Julia,
Beldi Guido,
Elfering Achim,
Dubach Brigitte,
Candinas Daniel,
Pereira Diana,
Semmer Norbert K.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1002/aorn.12343
Subject(s) - teamwork , perioperative , perioperative nursing , medicine , quality (philosophy) , nursing , patient satisfaction , team role inventories , family medicine , anesthesia , management , philosophy , epistemology , economics
Abstract Successful surgery depends on collaboration and mutual trust among interdisciplinary team members. We compared teamwork quality as perceived by surgeons, anesthesia care providers, and perioperative nurses using two surveys in the same hospital. The general survey sent to the homes of the OR personnel revealed teamwork climate scores in the medium to high range. Attending surgeons were significantly more satisfied than perioperative nurses and resident surgeons; anesthesiologists were significantly more satisfied than perioperative nurses. A second single‐item survey administered immediately after elective open abdominal surgical procedures also showed relatively high satisfaction with teamwork. Results of the second survey, however, showed that attending surgeons were significantly less satisfied than the members of all the other professions, and perioperative nurses were significantly more satisfied than the members of all the other professions. We conclude that general surveys about teamwork quality among members of surgical teams may not necessarily reflect teamwork quality during actual surgical procedures.