{"id":2585,"date":"2021-04-29T20:47:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T04:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2021-04-29T20:52:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T04:52:58","slug":"teamwork-lessons-from-trauma-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/blog\/teamwork-lessons-from-trauma-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Teamwork Lessons From Trauma Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2585\" class=\"elementor elementor-2585\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-016ef41 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"016ef41\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8c7e363\" data-id=\"8c7e363\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-91ca883 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"91ca883\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A pager beeps, signaling to the trauma team that a patient is on the way.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you were observing a well-run trauma team in an emergency room working together to effectively assess and manage a trauma patient in life-threatening condition, you\u2019d notice something that might seem counterintuitive: it\u2019s relatively calm.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Team members aren\u2019t shouting over one another. They\u2019re not frantic. They\u2019re not disorganized. They\u2019re not agitated.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The multidisciplinary team\u2019s response isn\u2019t chaotic; it\u2019s coordinated.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the face of uncertainty and life-or-death situations, a number of things underpin a trauma team\u2019s ability to work together effectively, quickly, and methodically:<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Egos are checked at the emergency room door.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Team members are aligned on the objective to stabilize the patient\u2019s vital signs, to assess the severity of their injuries, and to coordinate the critical first steps of the patient\u2019s care.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Priorities are clear and shared: ABCs (airway, breathing, circulation) come first.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roles and responsibilities are clearly defined and team members are competent in the key skills for which they are responsible.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While no two trauma scenarios are exactly alike, the team is prepared as best they can be and team members are practiced.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good team communication is facilitated by the use of clear and concise statements along with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Closed-loop_communication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">closed loop communication<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New information is shared as it becomes available.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Team members ask for help and clarification as required.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Team members support each other.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Team members respect and trust one another.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team\u2019s capacity to be calm in the storm doesn\u2019t happen by accident. It comes from leadership, training, mindset, and practice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>What teamwork lessons might your team learn from trauma teams, especially when it comes to navigating uncertainty and crisis?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were observing a well-run trauma team in an emergency room working together to effectively assess and manage a trauma patient in life-threatening condition, you\u2019d notice something that might seem counterintuitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,5,14,8,3,10,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaboration","category-communication","category-empathy","category-facilitation","category-innovation","category-leadership","category-learning","category-problem-solving","category-trust"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Teamwork-Lessons-From-Trauma-Teams.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2593,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions\/2593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}