Objectives: The objectives of the study were to identify Danish anaesthesiologists’ non-technical skills and to customise the Scottish-developed Anaesthetists’ NonTechnical Skills instrument for Danish anaesthesiologists. Methods: Six semi-structured group interviews were conducted with 31 operating room team members: anaesthesiologists, nurse anaesthetists, surgeons, and scrub nurses. Intervie...

Editorial How to cite this article Carvalho ECC. A look at the non-technical skills of nurses: simulation contributions. Rev. Latino-Am. Enfermagem. The Nursing area is increasingly faced with the challenge to prepare its professionals for the performance of technical and non-technical skills. In this sense, simulations, particularly high-fidelity ones, have been recognized as allies, with adva...

Information Systems (IS) curricula should provide students with both technical and non-technical (soft) skills. The technical aspects are covered by various courses. However, soft skills like teamwork, interpersonal communication, presentation delivery, and others are hardly covered. Employers, who consider both technical and soft skills to be equally important, search for professional Informat...

Pharmacometricians require three skills to be influential: technical, business (e.g., drug development), and soft skills (e.g., communication). Effective communication is required to translate technical and often complicated quantitative findings to interdisciplinary team members in order to influence drug development or regulatory decisions. In this tutorial, we highlight important aspects rel...

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.