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The Collective Leadership for Safety Culture (Co-Lead) Team Intervention to Promote Teamwork and Patient Safety

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  • Aoife De Brún

    (UCD Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Education, and Innovation in Health Systems (UCD IRIS), School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland)

  • Sabrina Anjara

    (UCD Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Education, and Innovation in Health Systems (UCD IRIS), School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland)

  • Una Cunningham

    (UCD Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Education, and Innovation in Health Systems (UCD IRIS), School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
    Transformation Office, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Eccles St, Dublin 7, Ireland)

  • Zuneera Khurshid

    (UCD Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Education, and Innovation in Health Systems (UCD IRIS), School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland)

  • Steve Macdonald

    (UCD Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Education, and Innovation in Health Systems (UCD IRIS), School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
    School of Medicine, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX Limerick, Ireland)

  • Róisín O’Donovan

    (UCD Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Education, and Innovation in Health Systems (UCD IRIS), School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland)

  • Lisa Rogers

    (UCD Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Education, and Innovation in Health Systems (UCD IRIS), School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland)

  • Eilish McAuliffe

    (UCD Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Education, and Innovation in Health Systems (UCD IRIS), School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland)

Abstract

Traditional hierarchical leadership has been implicated in patient safety failings internationally. Given that healthcare is almost wholly delivered by multidisciplinary teams, there have been calls for a more collective and team-based approach to the sharing of leadership and responsibility for patient safety. Although encouraging a collective approach to accountability can improve the provision of high quality and safe care, there is a lack of knowledge of how to train teams to adopt collective leadership. The Collective Leadership for Safety Cultures (Co-Lead) programme is a co-designed intervention for multidisciplinary healthcare teams. It is an open-source resource that offers teams a systematic approach to the development of collective leadership behaviours to promote effective teamworking and enhance patient safety cultures. This paper provides an overview of the co-design, pilot testing, and refining of this novel intervention prior to its implementation and discusses key early findings from the evaluation. The Co-Lead intervention is grounded in the real-world experiences and identified needs and priorities of frontline healthcare staff and management and was co-designed based on the evidence for collective leadership and teamwork in healthcare. It has proven feasible to implement and effective in supporting teams to lead collectively to enhance safety culture. This intervention overview will be of value to healthcare teams and practitioners seeking to promote safety culture and effective teamworking by supporting teams to lead collectively.

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  • Aoife De Brún & Sabrina Anjara & Una Cunningham & Zuneera Khurshid & Steve Macdonald & Róisín O’Donovan & Lisa Rogers & Eilish McAuliffe, 2020. "The Collective Leadership for Safety Culture (Co-Lead) Team Intervention to Promote Teamwork and Patient Safety," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(22), pages 1-15, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:22:p:8673-:d:449194
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    1. Marie E. Ward & Aoife De Brún & Deirdre Beirne & Clare Conway & Una Cunningham & Alan English & John Fitzsimons & Eileen Furlong & Yvonne Kane & Alan Kelly & Sinéad McDonnell & Sinead McGinley & Brend, 2018. "Using Co-Design to Develop a Collective Leadership Intervention for Healthcare Teams to Improve Safety Culture," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(6), pages 1-17, June.
    2. Venus, Merlijn & Mao, Changguo & Lanaj, Klodiana & Johnson, Russell E., 2012. "Collectivistic Leadership Requires a Collective Identity," Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Cambridge University Press, vol. 5(4), pages 432-436, December.
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