Date
3-21-2023
Department
Graduate School of Business
Degree
Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)
Chair
Ronald Morgan
Keywords
organizational culture, patient safety, TeamSTEPPS, team training
Disciplines
Business | Medicine and Health Sciences
Recommended Citation
Quinto, Amelia Arca, "TeamSTEPPS and Organizational Culture" (2023). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects. 4224.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/4224
Abstract
Patient safety issues remain despite several strategies developed for their deterrence. While many safety initiatives bring about improvement, they are repeatedly unsustainable and short-lived. The index hospital’s goal was to build an organizational culture within a groundwork that improves teamwork and continuing healthcare team engagement. Teamwork influences the efficiency of patient care, patient safety, and clinical outcomes, as it has been identified as an approach for enhancing collaboration, decreasing medical errors, and building a culture of safety in healthcare. The facility implemented Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS), an evidence-based framework which was used for team training to produce valuable and needed changes, facilitating modification of organizational culture, increasing patient safety compliance, or solving particular issues. This study aimed to identify the correlation between TeamSTEPPS enactment and improved organizational culture in the ambulatory care nursing department of a New York City public hospital.
