TeamSTEPPS Curriculum Tools and Materials

Core TeamSTEPPS Training Curriculum Materials

TeamSTEPPS is presented in a multimedia format, with tools to help your health care organization plan, conduct, and evaluate its own team training program. It includes:

• An Instructor Guide that explains how to conduct a pre-training assessment of an organization's training needs, how to present the information effectively, and how to manage organizational change. The Guide also provides an evidence base for each lesson. Availability.
• A Multimedia Resource Kit with contents of the Instructor Guide in electronic form plus high-quality video vignettes of teamwork situations. This comes as a CD-ROM with the printable files (Word®, PDF, and PowerPoint®) that comprise the Instructor Guide and the Pocket Guide, plus a DVD that contains nine video vignettes about how failures in teamwork and communication can place patients in jeopardy, and how successful teams can work to improve patient outcomes. Availability.
• A spiral-bound Pocket Guide that summarizes TeamSTEPPS principles in a portable, easy-to-use format. Availability.
• PowerPoint® presentations that convey basic TeamSTEPPS principles. Available online and on CD-ROM.
• 17- x 22-inch poster that tells your staff you are adopting TeamSTEPPS. Availability.

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TeamSTEPPS Rapid Response Systems (RRS) Training Module

This evidence-based module will provide insight into the core concepts of teamwork as they are applied to the rapid response system (RRS). The module contains the Instructor Guide in electronic form plus training slides that include a high-quality video vignette of teamwork as it relates to RRS. This comes as a CD-ROM with the printable files (Word®, PDF, and PowerPoint®)

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How to Order TeamSTEPPS Materials

Instructor Guide: A limited number of assembled toolkits (including the CD, DVD, and printed materials in a 3-inch looseleaf binder) are available from the AHRQ Clearinghouse, on a single-copy basis, at cost.

• Phone: 800-358-9295.
• E-mail: (Civilian Orders) ahrqpubs@ahrq.hhs.gov; (DoD/TRICARE Orders) dodteamstepps@ahrq.hhs.gov

Multimedia Resource Kit, Pocket Guide, Poster and RRS Module: You may obtain single copies of the CD-ROM and DVD disks (distributed in a disk wallet as the Multimedia Resource Kit), the Pocket Guide, and the poster free from the AHRQ Publications Clearinghouse. DoD requests should indicate the order is "DoD/TRICARE."

• Online: Civilian Orders, DoD/TRICARE Orders
• Phone: 800-358-9295.
• E-mail: (Civilian Orders) ahrqpubs@ahrq.hhs.gov; (DoD/TRICARE Orders) dodteamstepps@ahrq.hhs.gov

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Additional TeamSTEPPS Tools and Materials available for download

TeamSTEPPS Leadership Briefing Slides

• Make the business case to the leadership in your organization for why implementing TeamSTEPPS is a good idea. Download this customizable slide set (PPT - 817 KB) or view text-only version online.

TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Attitudes Questionnaire (T-TAQ)

• T-TAQ is a new measurement tool to help you determine whether TeamSTEPPS tools and strategies enhanced participant attitudes toward teamwork, increased knowledge about effective team practice and improved team skills. The T-TAQ can be used to assess specific needs within the unit or health care institution and whether the TeamSTEPPS intervention produced the desired attitude change. Download this tool (PDF - 215 KB) or view text-only version online.

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TeamSTEPPS Materials on the Department of Defense Patient Safety Website

All TeamSTEPPS tools can be accessed online at the Department of Defense Patient Safety Program website located at http://dodpatientsafety.usuhs.mil/teamstepps (Mouse over "Healthcare Team Coordination Program" then down to "Training" in the navigation bar at the top.)

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More Resources on Team Training and Patient Safety

PSNet features essential resources on patient safety, with weekly updates of patient safety literature, tools, and meetings. Go to http://www.psnet.ahrq.gov/

Department of Health and Human Services
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Department of Defense
TRICARE

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