Safer Surgery part 11

- At the time of writing, analyses of the data were ongoing but examples are now given of some coded segments in the identified non-technical skill categories.
- If I hand over a suture which is short, maybe because the surgeon has already used it, I would say to him ‘that’s a short length’ to make him aware of it otherwise he could get half way through using it before realising..
- The reasoning behind this type of communication is so the nurse feels she has given the surgeon enough information for him/her to decide whether this will be a long enough suture for the immediate task.
- If it is not, she expects that the surgeon will tell her so that she can mount a full-length suture instead.
- This is to minimize the chance of causing the surgeon to become frustrated were s/he to discover, during the task, that the suture is shorter than expected and to prevent a confrontation with that surgeon, or delay in the procedure, while that is rectified..
- ‘Would this [piece of equipment] help?’ and there are also surgeons who I would never suggest anything to..
- The scrub nurse regularly communicates with all members of the theatre team;.
- Generally, when asked to ‘Describe the team that you work in when in theatre’, the nurses named the other nursing team members, for example, team leader and circulating nurse, rather than describing members of the whole theatre team..
- Further questioning by the interviewer resulted in the surgical and anaesthetic team members also being described indicating that, in this sample of nurses, they.
- did not automatically associate themselves as members of the whole theatre team, but rather as belonging to the nursing subteam.
- This contrasts with the majority view of nurses in the Undre (2006b) study who thought that OT professionals all belong to a single team whereas surgeons and anaesthetists perceived the OT as comprising multiple highly specialized teams.
- However, in our study, the nurses were advised that the interview was about their duties and skills as a scrub nurse which may have suggested that their role within the nurse subteam was under scrutiny.
- The scrub nurse is the member of the team who is responsible for providing the surgeon with the equipment necessary for the procedure and once scrubbed can not leave the table.
- S/he must be able to anticipate the scrub nurses’ needs so that s/he, in turn, is able to provide the surgeon with the equipment in a timely fashion..
- One underlying element of teamwork from the nurses’ perspective appears to be coordination, i.e., that exchanges of information and equipment or instruments passing between team members must be smoothly executed, for example:.
- If there’s a lot of blood loss, especially if that wasn’t expected, I’ll ask them [anaesthetist] if they want them [swabs] weighed because he’s the one who’ll be replacing the fluid..
- This means that if the scrub nurse is ‘one step ahead’ of the surgeon then the circulating nurse has to be two steps ahead in order to enable this information/.
- Situation awareness is most certainly a non-technical skill required by scrub nurses for effective performance.
- Available clues in the environment include listening to conversation exchanges between other team members, listening to and understanding changes in patient monitors, as well as observing changes in other team members’ tone of voice, body language or demeanour:.
- Listening, being aware of the other stuff round about you.
- I am always tuned into the pulse sats or the ECG or something so I’m instantly aware of the changes because I might have to stop.
- You can just recognize the surgeon’s body language, or see them clenching their jaw, that things are not going well..
- The longer you are a scrub nurse, the more you are able to not just react to what the surgeon does, you can anticipate what the surgeon is going to do..
- As was found in the literature review, there were minimal data in the interviews coded as decision-making or leadership skills.
- However, most of these items are driven by the nurses’ knowledge of the surgeons’ preferences or stages of the procedure..
- Leadership was not seen as a role which the scrub nurse felt they had in the theatre team.
- The question ‘who do you see as the leader in the team?’ was answered with a mixture of responses but the senior nursing team leader on duty or a fluctuating leadership role between consultant anaesthetist and consultant surgeon as the procedure progresses were responses..
- Consultant surgeon interviews In order to obtain a surgical perspective on what scrub nurse behaviours assist or hinder the surgeon to perform his/her task, interviews were conducted with nine consultant surgeons from four Scottish hospitals.
- The nurses’ ability to anticipate and hand the surgeon instrumentation in a timely fashion were skills they appreciated:.
- The scrub nurses’ knowledge of surgical procedures and instrumentation were also skills which emerged as being important in the surgeons’ view:.
- They don’t hand me short scissors when I’m in the pelvis, they’re going to give me long scissors..
- One behaviour identified as negatively affecting the surgeons was when the scrub nurse is distracted by other people or issues in the theatre:.
- Although this was a common complaint from the surgeons, it should be acknowledged that the ability of the scrub nurse to assist the surgeon effectively seems largely as a consequence of their ability to absorb the conversations and cues in the rest of the theatre whilst still maintaining concentration on the procedure and the likely requirements of the surgeon.
- A communication issue which emerged in interviews with both nurses and surgeons was on occasions where the surgeon can not bring to mind the name of the instrument that s/he requires the scrub nurse to hand over:.
- I find particularly when I am deeply concentrating and stressed out I can’t find the names of the instruments..
- Surgeons do seem to prefer scrub nurses to possess a certain degree of ‘mind reading’ ability although this skill appears to be a combination of knowledge of the procedure, familiarity with surgeons and their preferred methods and use of instrumentation.
- This knowledge, combined with the ability to listen and process sources of available information, for example, conversations and monitors in the operating theatre environment, enables them to assist the surgeon efficiently and seemingly effortlessly.
- These skills also appear to contribute to the satisfaction derived by experienced scrub nurses when a procedure ‘flows’, particularly when they have planned well, have all possible equipment available and have anticipated his/her requirements so that the surgeon does not have to wait for anything..
- The next step in the project is for expert panels comprising three to four theatre nurse team leaders to review the data segments (example described in Table 5.3).
- In previous taxonomies, for example, within the ‘Situation Awareness’ category of the behavioural rating system for surgeons’ non-technical skills (NOTSS) (see <www.abdn.ac.uk/iprc/.
- There are a number of key non-technical skills required for effective and safe task performance by scrub nurses.
- One of the most important skills of the scrub nurse is situation awareness, that is, to monitor the actions of the surgeon, anticipate the surgeon’s technical requirements and using coordination skills to enable the.
- smooth flow of the operative procedure.
- In addition, scrub nurses’ ability to identify and cope with different surgeons’ personalities and changing preferences is a skill which enables them to assess surgical situations, particularly when a procedure is not going according to the original plan.
- They appear able to identify the changing behaviour of surgeons as well as absorbing audible and visual clues in the theatre environment, so that they can adjust their own performance to assist surgeons effectively.
- This project will produce a prototype rating tool for use by nurses to rate observations of performance by them in the operating theatre.
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- Until relatively recently, surgical performance and surgical outcomes were mostly understood and modelled as a function of, first, the surgical patients’ risk factors and, second, the expertise and ability of the operating surgeon.
- In turn, surgical expertise was conceptualized predominantly in terms of the surgeon’s visuo-motor (or technical) skills.
- In the last few years, however, a shift in the conceptualization of surgical competence has emerged in the literature, as well in training curricula for junior surgeons.
- The shift involves a systems-oriented approach to surgery, in which multiple determinants of surgical outcomes are considered (Calland et al..
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- These determinants include the surgeon’s technical (Beard 2007, Fried and Feldman 2008), cognitive and behavioural skills (Yule et al.
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- 2008b), and teamwork in the operating theatre (Healey et al..
- Teamwork in surgical teams refers to the way the operating surgeon interacts with other members of the operating theatre team – including assistant surgeon(s) and members of the anaesthetic and nursing sub-teams.
- Recent surgical publications have highlighted the importance of teamwork for the delivery of safe, high quality surgical care (e.g., Davenport et al.
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- Moreover, in the United States, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has highlighted poor teamworking as a regular contributing factor to medical error (JCAHO 2000).
- Furthermore, in recent, high profile errors (e.g., wrong-sided surgery) the involvement and contribution of the rest of the team have been questioned in addition to that of the operating surgeon, thus highlighting a shift towards more emphasis on teamwork in the delivery of surgical care (Kaufman 2003)..
- In this chapter, we report the development and initial empirical exploration of the Observational Teamwork Assessment for Surgery © (OTAS

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