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Accolades For Hollywood Study Into Rapid Response Teams To Improve Medical Emergency Processes
Jul 01, 2021
Research into medical emergency teams at Hollywood Private Hospital is gaining international attention.
Hollywood Private Hospital Clinical Nurse Manager Adam Coleman with his International Congress on Innovation in Nursing award.
The study of the non-technical skills of medical emergency teams was led by Dr Rosemary Saunders and conducted by researchers from Hollywood and Edith Cowan University - School of Nursing and Midwifery.
Hollywood Clinical Nurse Manager Adam Coleman shared the research at the recent International Congress on Innovations in Nursing in Perth and won the Best Oral Presentation Award.
The study has been published in the June edition of Australasian Emergency Care.
Mr Coleman has also been invited to present the research in Zurich, Switzerland in October.
“Medical emergency teams are essential in responding to acute deterioration of patients in hospitals,” Mr Coleman said.
“These teams are made up of staff such as doctors, nurses and patient services assistants who require clinical and non-technical skills.
“Our study identified individual, team and other contributing factors which impact on communications skills, leadership, teamwork and task management.
Mr Coleman said the non-technical skills of hospital medical emergency teams were all different and did affect the resuscitation outcomes for patients.
“Our findings emphasise the importance of non-technical skills in resuscitation training and well-developed processes for medical emergency teams,” he said.
Mr Coleman is currently using the research to improve the processes of medical emergency teams at Hollywood.
“I hope our research will help improve medical emergency teams in WA and around the world,” he said.
The project was funded by the Hollywood Private Hospital Research Foundation.