Non-technical skills in the operating room: Crisis resource management principles - IJCA- Print ISSN No: 2394-4781 Online No:- 2394-4994 Article DOI 10.18231/j.ijca.2023.025, Indian Journal of Clinical Anaesthesia-Indian J Clin Anaesth

Traditionally, healthcare professionals have been expected to acquire technical skills while minimal attention has been paid to the non-technical skills (NTS) they require to work in complex health environments, such as resuscitation rooms. This article explains the importance of NTS in improving patient outcomes and why a model of dynamic nurse leadership is useful in resuscitative care.

In the medical profession, surgery and anaesthesia are leading the way in identifying human errors that negatively affect patient safety. Evidence suggests that the implementation of non-technical skills assessments reduces such errors. Interventional Radiology is a procedural based speciality and therefore may also benefit from formal assessment of non-technical skills. This literature review ...

The capstone design experience is an important component of our undergraduate engineering program. Until recently the capstone project was only the second major design experience for undergraduates, the first occurring in the freshman year. Because of this gap in project experience, seniors often had difficulty with non-technical skills (teamwork, effective communication, project management, et...