Action Plan: Integrating TeamSTEPPS into Health Professions Education
1. Problem Identification & General Needs Assessment
A. Define the Problem (why should you integrate team training into your curricula):
B. Describe your current approach to the problem:
C. What is the ideal approach to the problem?
D. What are your needs to close the gap between current and ideal?
2. Needs Assessment of Targeted Learners
A. Identify your learners:
___Deans ___Program Chairs ___Faculty ___Clinical Preceptors and Instructors
___Nursing Students ___PT Students ___OT Students ___Other:___________________
B. Describe relevant context:
Context Element
Previous training
Nursing
PT
OT
Existing KSAs
Current Performance
Preferences for learning
strategies
Characteristics of
learners’ environments
Resources
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3. Objectives should be specific & measurable & informed by your goal of exposure,
immersion or competence.
Who will do how much
of what
by when?
A. Decide on Goal of experience: Exposure, Immersion, and Competence.
B. Write one program level learning objective:
C. Write one program level process objective:
D. Write one program level outcome objective:
4. Educational Strategies. Choose an initial strategy to address your problem that matches your
goal of exposure, immersion, or competence.
Method
Teamwork
Knowledge
ProblemSolving using
Team Skills
Attitudes
toward IPE
Clinical
Skills
Non-Clinical
Behaviors
Readings
Lecture
Discussion
Problem-based Learning
Simulation
Reflection/Review of
Simulation Video
Real Life Clinical
Experience
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5. Implementation Checklist
Resources
___Personnel/Faculty
___Personnel/Support
___Time/Faculty
___Facilities/Space/Equipment/Clinical Sites
___Funding
Support
___Internal/Deans
___Internal/Chairs
___External/ Clinical preceptors and Clinical Instructors
Structure to Support Curriculum Change
___Identify roles and responsibilities
___Identify content and sequence
___Communicate content, goals/objectives to all stakeholders
Anticipate Barriers
___Funding
___Competing demands
___Attitudes
6. Evaluation and Feedback
A. Decide Type and Level of Evaluation
1. Types = Formative and Summative
2. Levels = Individual and Program
Individual Learner
Program
Exposure
Formative
Formative
Immersion
Formative
Formative & Summative
Competence
Summative
B. Identify Evaluation Questions
1. Relate to your objectives
2. Evaluate KSAs
C. Choose evaluation design
1. Posttest only
2. Pretest-posttest
3. Pretest-posttest with a control group
4. Randomized Pretest-posttest with a control group
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D. Choose Methods and Instruments
1. Questionnaires using rating scales
2. Open-ended comments
3. Focus Groups
4. Individual interviews
5. Direct observation
E. Ethical Concerns
Educational studies usually exempt except when videotaping…then need informed
consent
F. Data Collection
G. Data Analysis
H. Report Writing, Presentations and Dissemination
Put it all together in an elevator speech.
Elevator Speech: “TeamSTEPPS is an evidence-based team training program that is being
implemented in hospitals and integrated into undergraduate health professions education.
We have chosen to focus on solving the problem of__________________________________
by exposing / immersing / ensuring competence of (who) _____________________________
in interprofessional teamwork.
We plan to use the educational strategy(s) of _______________________________________.
It is important that we integrate teamwork training as an interprofessional educational strategy
because teamwork is a core competency of patient-centered care and lack of teamwork and
poor communication puts patients at risk.
We need you to support our efforts by ____________________________________________.”
Reference: Kern DE, Thomas PA, Howard DM, Bass EB. Curriculum Development for Medical
Education: A Six-Step Approach. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press; 1998.
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