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Medical Errors , Organizational Culture , Humans , Reproducibility of Results , Patient SafetyABSTRACT
This column shares the lived experiences of four Master Trainers who used storytelling as the methodology for teaching TeamSTEPPS to interprofessional staff members of a large health system. TeamSTEPPS is an evidence-based program that focuses on skills and behaviors that improve teamwork and communication, which are key to preventing medical errors.
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Education, Nursing, Continuing/methods , Education, Nursing, Continuing/organization & administration , Evidence-Based Nursing , Narration , Nursing, Team/methods , Evidence-Based Nursing/education , Evidence-Based Nursing/methods , Evidence-Based Nursing/organization & administration , Humans , Interprofessional Relations , Nursing Evaluation Research , Nursing Methodology ResearchABSTRACT
Research and development work is being conducted for the National Weather Service on a new-generation flash flood monitoring and forecasting computer workstation. The workstation represents an integration of national data sources, regional networks of real-times rain gages, radar-rainfall and satellite remote sensing, and geographic information system and relational database management software. The HYDROMET system provides for hydrologic forecast analyses and (semi) automatic warning message dissemination (AU)
