Situational Awareness Vital Insights: SAVI

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In A Nutshell:

SAVI has been designed to support healthcare professionals, or professionals in training, to improve safety of care. These training videos use real-life clinical scenarios to demonstrate examples of good and poor situational awareness across different parts of the patient journey. Resources include notes for trainers.

A lack of situational awareness has been identified as an important factor contributing to human error. SAVI has been developed by a team of clinicians and human factors experts to help all staff working with patients to become more situationally aware.

The scenarios in SAVI videos have been chosen to encourage awareness of the importance of team and communication skills, environmental and task factors as well as patient involvement in promoting safety.

The films are aimed at healthcare professionals who have direct patient contact, but can also be used as part of undergraduate training for nurses and doctors. Please download support materials when using this resource as part of a training course.

Learning objectives:

  • To gain an understanding of the key concepts of situational awareness
  • To gain awareness of the importance of situational awareness for patient safety
  • To understand the value of teams sharing information to increase situational awareness
  • To be aware of some of the factors that can reduce situational awareness

Introduction to SAVI

Professor Rebecca Lawton introduces SAVI in this short video.


Scenarios

Misdiagnosis in Primary Care

The following videos illustrate how misdiagnosis in primary care can occur when an underlying diagnosis interferes with the identification of other diagnoses. The first video can be used to prompt reflection and group discussion. The second video is the same scenario but also includes key learning points. Trainers can use this resource with training support materials.

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The Deteriorating Patient

The following videos emphasise the importance of listening to patients and relatives in a busy ward environment and stresses the need to ensure appropriate assessment and timely action in response to the deteriorating patient. The first video is a “poor practice” scenario to prompt reflection and group discussion. The second video is a “good practice” scenario and includes key learning points. Trainers can use this resource with training support materials.

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Prescribing High Rish Medicine

These videos illustrate how errors might occur in the treatment of patients requiring high-risk medicines, and highlights some of the contributory factors. The first video can be used to prompt reflection and group discussion. The second video is the same scenario but also includes key learning points. Trainers can use this resource with training support materials.

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Communication in Team Safety Briefings

These videos illustrate a typical theatre safety briefing and emphasise the importance of multi-professional teamwork to patient safety in operating theatres. The first video can be used to prompt reflection and group discussion. The second video is the same scenario but also includes key learning points. Trainers can use this resource with training support materials.

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Closing remarks

In this video Professor, Rebecca Lawton rounds up the learning from this course and highlights the importance of SAVI in healthcare teams.