• Taylor Sawyer, Vickie Ann Laubach, Joseph Hudak, Kelli Yamamura, and Amber Pocrnich.
• Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI, USA. taylorleesawyer@hotmail.com
• Neonatal Netw. 2013 Jan 1; 32 (1): 26-33.

PurposeTo determine the impact of interprofessional Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS ) training on teamwork skills during neonatal resuscitation.DesignTeams of physicians, nurses, and respiratory therapists participated in TeamSTEPPS training that included simulation with an event-based approach. During the simulations, scripted medication order and performance errors were used to test teamwork skills. Measures of teamwork skills were obtained before and after the training using a prospective pretest-posttest design.SampleForty-two physicians, nurses, and respiratory therapists.Main Outcome VariableTeamwork skills.ResultSignificant improvements in teamwork skills were seen in team structure, leadership, situation monitoring, mutual support, and communication (p ,.001). Challenges by nurses to a scripted medication order error doubled from 38 percent before the training to 77 percent after the training. The odds of a nurse challenging an incorrect medication dose from an attending neonatologist improved significantly. Detection and correction of inadequate chest compressions increased from 61.5 to 84.6 percent after the training.

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