Read more about each essential characteristic of effective cardiovascular teams on the Alliance of Cardiovascular Professionals Blog.
[infographic] 5 Essential Characteristics of Effective Cardiovascular Teams
Essential Characteristic #3 – Experts Need Checklists
"One of the most extensive recommendations in the consensus statement," writes the Advisory Board Company's Jake Hartman on a consensus statement released by cardiology leaders in a 2012 edition of Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, "the group recommends that hospitals develop a detailed preprocedure checklist to ensure all safety precautions appropriate for the cath lab have been taken."
In December of 2009, Atul Gawande, MD released a book called A Checklist Manifesto, a strong argument for the use of pre-procedure checklists in medicine and other fields.
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Essential Characteristic #2 – What Flexibility can do for you
Anne-Marie Slaughter, former Director of Policy Planning for the US Department of State, gave a TED talk in 2013 where she discussed work-life balance---how it helps employers and employees, and how it can facilitate gender equality in the work place.
Her talk offered an excellent perspective on an important societal issue, but it also outlined the beneficial effects of giving employees flexible schedules.
In cardiovascular care, flexible scheduling is not impossible or unreasonable. The importance of work-life balance and its effects on everything from quality of care to the bottom line make flexible staffing the second of our 5 essential characteristics of highly effective cardiovascular teams.
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