Klunder-Rosser, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-6365-9019 (2023) Theatre practitioners and organisational adaptive capacity in disaster response. Journal of Perioperative Practice, 33 (12). pp. 386-389. ISSN 1750-4589
Abstract
Disasters are increasing globally, requiring flexible strategic approaches from healthcare organisations to manage the resultant influx of patients requiring care while also maintaining normal operational services. Theatre practitioners play a key role in disaster response and recovery; however, a lack of appropriate skill utilisation may be reducing overall organisational adaptive capacity and leading to poorer outcomes for organisations, staff and patients. Understanding what skills individual practitioners have, and how they can be deployed to the greatest effect, is a concern for managers to ensure optimal use of resources and to reduce negative impacts of disaster response upon healthcare personnel. This is especially pertinent in the post-COVID healthcare climate where a paucity of operating theatre practitioners and poor workforce planning has led to a lack of surgical capacity at a time when it is most needed.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | Disaster response; management; operating theatres; theatre practitioners; adaptive capacity; skill utilisation |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Health and Related Research (Sheffield) > ScHARR - Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 17 May 2023 10:17 |
Last Modified: | 04 Dec 2023 11:59 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/17504589231177833 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:199123 |