Interprofessional communication skills training to improve medical students’ and nursing trainees’ error communication - quasi-experimental pilot study
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E-Artikel
Titel:
Interprofessional communication skills training to improve medical students’ and nursing trainees’ error communication - quasi-experimental pilot study
Erschienen:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2024
Erschienen in:
BMC Medical Education, 24 (2024) 1
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1186/s12909-023-04997-5
ISSN:
1472-6920
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:sec>
<jats:title>Background</jats:title>
<jats:p>Interprofessional communication is of extraordinary importance for patient safety. To improve interprofessional communication, joint training of the different healthcare professions is required in order to achieve the goal of effective teamwork and interprofessional care. The aim of this pilot study was to develop and evaluate a joint training concept for nursing trainees and medical students in Germany to improve medication error communication.</jats:p>
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<jats:title>Methods</jats:title>
<jats:p>We used a mixed-methods, quasi-experimental study with a pre-post design and two study arms. This study compares medical students (3rd year) and nursing trainees (2nd year) who received an interprofessional communication skills training with simulation persons (intervention group, IG) with a control group (CG). Both cohorts completed identical pre- and post-training surveys using the German Interprofessional Attitudes Scale (G-IPAS) and a self-developed interprofessional error communication scale. Descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney-U-test and Wilcoxon-test were performed to explore changes in interprofessional error communication.</jats:p>
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<jats:title>Results</jats:title>
<jats:p>A total of 154 were medical students, and 67 were nursing trainees (IG: 66 medical students, 28 nursing trainees / CG: 88 medical students, 39 nursing trainees). After training, there were significant improvements observed in the “interprofessional error communication” scale (p < .001) and the “teamwork, roles, and responsibilities” subscale (p = .012). Median scores of the subscale “patient-centeredness” were similar in both groups and remained unchanged after training (median = 4.0 in IG and CG).</jats:p>
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<jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title>
<jats:p>Future studies are needed to find out whether the training sustainably improves interprofessional teamwork regarding error communication in acute care.</jats:p>
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