Why SafeTeam Academy?
To improve patient safety and quality of care through the development of soft skills and human factors in healthcare.
In 2022, medical errors are among the top 10 causes of death according to the WHO*. These accidents are partly due to defects in communication, transmission of information or distractions and task interruptions*.
Although healthcare establishments are implementing numerous strategies and deploying tools to limit serious undesirable events, reducing accidents during care remains a challenge. The demand for care, and the number of patients to be treated in particular, increases every year. Pathologies are increasingly complex. Interactions between healthcare professionals are growing exponentially, and human resources are under strain, particularly after two years of pandemics.
SafeTeam Academy was designed by expert healthcare professionals in these fields with the aim of developing teamwork and care safety, and with the desire to support all actors in the healthcare system towards a more human-centered medicine.
Where does the name SafeTeam Academy come from?
SafeTeam is a variation of Safety. But it is also the translation of a reliable team in the sense of safety, an equivalent used in some industries. However, we believe that the current challenge in healthcare is to move a team from being a team of experts to an expert team.
Fortunately, solutions exist, such as considering human factors.
Specifically, this involves developing non-technical skills such as teamwork, workload management, communication, situational awareness, and self-awareness (stress or fatigue management).
This necessary investment for our patients also addresses a need of healthcare professionals, who are constantly seeking to improve the quality of their care.
To train healthcare professionals in these skills, "simulation has become in a few years an essential tool for training professions at risk"*.
Since 2010, the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS) has been promoting simulation in healthcare, and a comprehensive guide was published in 2019 on this subject.
SafeTeam Academy is a training platform (Learning Management System or LMS) hosting innovative video-immersive training courses featuring simulated care situations. These training courses can be SafeTeam Academy productions or training courses developed in partnership with other structures with expertise in a field (simulation centers, hospitals, manufacturers, etc.).
In practice, it involves using cinema to enhance learning through personalized short films.
SafeTeam Academy focuses on the realism of video-immersion and authenticity to promote the analysis of practices, the acquisition of new skills, and the transfer of knowledge into practice.
This concept is there to serve a mission: to improve patient safety, more generally to optimize the performance of care, and the well-being of healthcare professionals.
The uses are multiple:
- Optimize the effectiveness of a full-scale simulation session by introducing e-learning concepts upstream
- re-exposure of healthcare professionals to a video-immersive situation that questions their practices, at a distance from simulation-based training.
- to train all healthcare professionals in a structure or department massively and rapidly, while maintaining care activity
- Unify teams around a common project to improve the quality of care
- Improving the safety culture and conducting a safety audit during a mass training event.
- Improving the quality of life at work and conducting an HR audit during a mass training event.
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Together, let's make the healthcare system safer!
1*. WHO | 10 facts on patient safety. WHO. http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/patient_safety/en/ (accessed 27 Jan 2019).
2*. Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare releases targeted solutions tool for hand-off communications. Jt Comm Perspect Jt Comm Accreditation Healthc Organ 2012;32:1, 3.
3*. Healthcare Simulation: From Theory to Practice, Sylvain Boet, Jean-Claude Granry, Georges Savoldelli
