With greater numbers of students enrolled in health professional programs, combined with ethical imperatives for learning and reduced access to quality clinical experiences, medical and nursing education increasingly rely on simulation education to implement interdisciplinary patient safety initiatives.
An example of how standardization of interdisciplinary standards can improve patient safety in the area of falls is also included.
This article summarizes the iterative participatory development, features, functions, and preliminary evaluation of a patient safety dashboard for interdisciplinary rounding teams on inpatient medical services.
In addition to being important to patient care quality, safety, and efficiency, interdisciplinary work is a recognized professional competency [ 14].
This is in line with the breakthrough report "To Err is Human" by the Institute of Medicine, which highlights the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration for further patient safety [ 2].
This area of competence is usually practiced at isolated moments of the medical curriculum related to the interdisciplinary field of humanities, patient safety [ 24], and bioethics.
To explore maternity nurses' perceptions of women's informed decision making during labor and birth to better understand how interdisciplinary communication challenges might affect patient safety.
Effective team training is recommended for those who are expected to work in teams [ 5], and nurses and physicians should conduct both disciplinary and interdisciplinary team training to increase patient safety.
For constant improvement of efficacy and safety of nanoparticles, a close interdisciplinary interplay between synthesis, physicochemical characterizations and toxicological investigations is urgently needed.
Human factors engineering (HFE) is an interdisciplinary approach to evaluating and improving use safety, efficiency, and robustness of work systems.
