Lecture 13 HF Decision Making And Teamwork

Question 1

What are the 8 behaviours of high performing teams?

Answer 1

Clear shared goals.
Temporal situation awareness.
Standardised procedures .
Formalised communication.
Structured checklists.
Extensive reporting systems. 
Pre-empting problems before they occurr. 
Acknowledging and addressing errors.

Question 2

What are the 4 factors of the OODA loop?

Answer 2

Observation- what’s the task?
Orientation - what’s the context?
Decision - how should we best approach this?
Action - implement

Question 3

Within the crew resource management plan (CRM2) they describe the SBAR technique used to communicate effectively, what is this technique ?

Answer 3

S- situation
B- background
A- assessment
R- request/recommendation

Question 4

How do the CRisis resource management principles and the crew resource management principles differ?

Answer 4

The Crisis resource management principles include maintaining professional behaviour and seperate allocating attention wisely and using available resources and information seperately. Whereas the crew resource management principles don’t include maintaining professional behaviour and combines allocation attention wisely and using available information and resources as one.

Question 5

How many deaths do failures in the healthcare system account for in Australia each year?

Answer 5

1/300