Beyond the Checklist: What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Teamwork and Safety (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

Library JournalUsing the principles learned in the aviation industry through a program called Crew Resource Management, Gordon (When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough: Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession) and her coauthors propose that this plan also be used for hospitals and medical staff. They write about how the airline industry has successfully cut down on disasters by using input from all personnel and getting them to work better as teams. Much time is spent explaining how the airline industry does that and how it has improved its safety records. They write about the training methods used and the airlines rules to make pilots and others comply. Unfortunately, because more than three-quarters of this book is spent on the airlines, not much is written about what suggestions would allow this plan to be implemented in medical situations.