Improving patient safety: Enhancing situational awareness for healthcare professionals
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- CMPA Good practices: Physician-team: Situational awareness
- CMPA Good practices: Physician-team: Psychological safety
- CMPA Good practices: Physician-team: Team communication
- eLearning activity: Competing priorities and team situational awareness in obstetrics
- Workshop: Advanced diagnostic reasoning
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- “Physician-Team: Psychological Safety: CMPA Good Practices.” CMPA, www.cmpa-acpm.ca/en/education-events/good-practices/physician-team/psychological-safety?panel=goodpractices-accordion. Accessed 15 Dec. 2023.
- “Accredited Elearning: Competing Priorities and Team Situational Awareness.” CMPA Online Education, www.cmpa-acpm.ca/serve/elearning/ob-competing-priorities/en/index.html?id=web. Accessed 15 Dec. 2023.
- “Accredited Elearning: Interprofessional Communication in Obstetrics.” CMPA Online Education, www.cmpa-acpm.ca/serve/elearning/ob-interprofessional-communication/en/index.html?id=web. Accessed 15 Dec. 2023.
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- “Tired? You’re Not Alone...” CMPA, www.cmpa-acpm.ca/en/advice-publications/browse-articles/2021/tired-youre-not-alone. Accessed 15 Dec. 2023.
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