Related Experiment Video
Updated: May 22, 2025

Setup and Execution Of the Blindfolded Code Training Exercise
Published on: March 29, 2019
TeamSTEPPS®-based teamwork training through an escape room experience: A mixed research study
Oscar Arrogante1, Marta Raurell-Torredà2, Elena Maestre-González3
1Departamento de Enfermería, Facultad de Enfermería, Fisioterapia y Podología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Grupo de Simulación de la Sociedad Española de Enfermería Intensiva y Unidades Coronarias (SEEIUC), Madrid, Spain.
Intensive care nurses reported high satisfaction with an escape room designed to teach Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS®). The activity effectively enhanced learning, communication, and teamwork skills for clinical practice.
Area of Science:
- Healthcare Education
- Nursing Professional Development
- Patient Safety Research
Background:
- Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS®) improves critical care teamwork.
- Escape rooms are an effective educational strategy for professional learning.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate intensive care nurses' satisfaction with a TeamSTEPPS®-based escape room.
- To explore nurses' perceptions of the escape room learning experience.
Main Methods:
- Mixed-methods study combining a satisfaction survey and thematic content analysis of open-ended comments.
- Quantitative data analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics™ 29.0.
- Qualitative data analyzed using ATLAS.ti 24™.
Main Results:
- Fifty-five intensive care nurses participated, reporting high overall satisfaction (median 47/50).
- Key themes included enjoyable learning, the utility of TeamSTEPPS® strategies for communication and teamwork, and the practical applicability of learned skills.
Conclusions:
- Escape rooms offer a dynamic and engaging platform for TeamSTEPPS® training.
- This educational approach effectively promotes teamwork and skill development in intensive care nurses.
More Related Videos
Related Concept Videos
Robbers Cave
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Problem-Solving
Impact: Problem Solving
By designating the launch point as the origin and utilizing kinematic equations, the vertical component of the projectile's velocity at the point of impact is...
Modeling in Therapy
Participant Modeling
Participant modeling involves therapists demonstrating calm and effective behaviors in...
Avoidance Learning and Learned Helplessness
Avoidance learning occurs when an organism learns that a specific behavior can prevent an unpleasant outcome. For example, a student who receives a bad grade may start studying harder to avoid future poor grades. This behavior persists even when the negative outcome is no longer present. Avoidance learning is powerful because it maintains behavior in the absence of the...

