Open AccessAddressing Dual Patient and Staff Safety Through A Team-Based Standardized Patient Simulation for Agitation Management in the Emergency Department
Author(s) -
Ambrose H. Wong,
Marc Auerbach,
Halley Ruppel,
Lauren Crispino,
Alana Rosenberg,
Joanne DeSanto Iennaco,
Federico E. Vaca
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
simulation in healthcare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.685
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1559-713X
pISSN - 1559-2332
DOI - 10.1097/sih.0000000000000309
Subject(s) - teamwork , patient safety , thematic analysis , focus group , emergency department , health care , harm , medicine , nursing , simulated patient , population , medical emergency , psychology , qualitative research , social psychology , social science , business , environmental health , marketing , sociology , political science , law , economics , economic growth
Emergency departments (EDs) have seen harm rise for both patients and health workers from an increasing rate of agitation events. Team effectiveness during care of this population is particularly challenging because fear of physical harm leads to competing interests. Simulation is frequently employed to improve teamwork in medical resuscitations but has not yet been reported to address team-based behavioral emergency care. As part of a larger investigation of agitated patient care, we designed this secondary study to examine the impact of an interprofessional standardized patient simulation for ED agitation management.