Innovative Team Training for Patient Safety: Comparing Classroom Learning to Experiential Training

Abstract

This study compared two different means of retraining staff in TeamSTEPPS^® in an effort to determine whether experiential training might be more effective than a classroom experience. A randomized, controlled pretest-posttest repeated measures design was used for the study. The hypothesis that experiential classes would result in improvements in attitude, perceptions, and knowledge of TeamSTEPPS was not borne out, but several important implications for further study were discovered. J Contin Educ Nurs. 2017;48(12):563-569.