Innovation Team Building Research Articles

Escaping the Silos: Utilization of a Pediatric Trauma Escape Room to Promote Interprofessional Education and Collaboration.

Millions of children are treated annually for trauma-related injuries but comprise a smaller proportion of emergency department visits than adults. As a result, emergency department teams may not have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to care for pediatric patients, and specialty teams may not interact enough as an interprofessional team to provide high-quality patient care. The purpose of this project is to describe a novel interprofessional simulation-based education initiative to assist pediatric trauma team readiness. An escape room was designed to provide an interactive educational environment focused on pediatric trauma education. Using an interprofessional dyad of a trauma nursing specialist and a pediatric nursing expert, the escape room was designed as a series of clues to improve pediatric skills and interprofessional collaboration between specialty teams. The escape room training was conducted (from February to March, 2023) in a large Southeastern U.S. Level II adult trauma center. Twenty-one registered nurses from different specialty teams participated in the simulation exercises with overwhelmingly positive feedback. Colleagues reported this was a unique way to deliver education that resulted in innovative team building and enriched collegiality between the specialty teams. The escape room educational format was positively received, and future events are planned across disciplines and various topics. Trauma centers with lower pediatric volumes seeking to provide engaging team-based education may use this format as a unique and innovative way to develop teams for clinical success.

Entrepreneurship Education for Training the Talent in China: Exploring the Influencing Factors and Their Effects

The essence of Chinese entrepreneurship education is to build an “upgraded” version of higher education that can enable China’s modernization through innovations and the sustainable development of the planet, in order to comprehensively and scientifically measure the magnitude of the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education for training the innovative talent, investigate the influencing factors of efficiency, and uncover the existing problems. This study was based on The Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (EntreComp), conducting quantitative research on 606 typical students from 211 undergraduate universities in China who achieved recognition for entrepreneurship achievements at the provincial level or above. This study found that entrepreneurship education has a significant effect on students’ innovation and entrepreneurship literacy, and in descending order of effectiveness, it improves 15 literacies, such as initiative; these are categorized into three domains: innovative action, innovative resources, and innovative thinking. Meanwhile, the more in-depth the entrepreneurship education reform, the more significant the efficiency. Second, there are significant differences in efficacy against the background of different durations of participation, score rankings, and numbers of achievements. There are no significant differences in efficacy between different disciplines and educational backgrounds. Third, the experience of the project leader has a significantly positive effect on efficiency. The current lack of innovative team building is the main factor affecting the effectiveness of innovative talent training in China.

Based on the research on teaching innovation team building of teachers in vocational colleges

With the continuous deepening of China's education reform, more requirements have been put forward for the teaching work of China's current vocational colleges, especially the work of teachers in higher vocational colleges and universities has also been changed to a certain extent. As a result, the traditional teaching team and teaching methods of vocational colleges and universities are no longer suitable for the educational needs of students, and the teaching level, teaching ability and teaching innovation team construction of teachers directly affect the cultivation of high-quality talents in schools. Therefore, in the current teaching of higher vocational colleges, how to effectively solve the problems existing in traditional education, and effectively meet the current teaching innovation team building of teachers in higher vocational colleges and universities through specific measures, has also become an important content in the current teaching of higher vocational colleges.

LiCoO2 Epitaxial Film Enabling Precise Analysis of Interfacial DegradationsSupported by the National Natural Science Fund for Innovative Research Groups (China) (Grant No. 51621003), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2016Yu7FB0700700), the Beijing Municipal Fund for Scientific Innovation (Grant No. PXM2019 014204 500031) and the Beijing Municipal High Level Innovative Team Building Program (Grant No. IDHT20190503).

Interfacial structure evolution and degradation are critical to the electrochemical performance of LiCoO2 (LCO), the most widely studied and used cathode material in lithium ion batteries. To understand such processes requires precise and quantitative measurements. Herein, we use well-defined epitaxial LCO thin films to reveal the interfacial degradation mechanisms. Through our systematical investigations, we find that surface corrosion is significant after forming the surface phase transition layer, and the cathode electrolyte interphase (CEI) has a double layer structure, an inorganic inner layer containing CoO, LiF, LiOH/Li2O and Li x PF y O z , and an outmost layer containing Li2CO3 and organic carbonaceous components. Furthermore, surface cracks are found to be pronounced due to mechanical failures and chemical etching. This work demonstrates a model material to realize the precise measurements of LCO interfacial degradations, which deepens our understanding on the interfacial degradation mechanisms.

High capacity sodium-rich layered oxide cathode for sodium-ion batteries**Project suppoted by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11774017, 51761135129, and 51472010) and Beijing Municipal High Level Innovative Team Building Program, China (Grant No. IDHT20170502).

Sodium-ion batteries have attracted significant recent attention currently considering the limited available lithium resource. However, the energy density of sodium-ion batteries is still insufficient compared to lithium-ion batteries, mainly because of the unavailability of high-energy cathode materials. In this work, a novel sodium-rich layered oxide material (Na2MnO3) is reported with a dynamical stability similar to that of the Li2MnO3 structure and a high capacity of , based on first-principles calculations. Sodium ion de-intercalation and anionic reaction processes are systematically investigated, in association with sodium ions migration phenomenon and structure stability during cycling of NaxMnO3 (). In addition, the charge compensation during the initial charging process is mainly contributed by oxygen, where the small differences of the energy barriers of the paths , , , , and indicate the reversible sodium ion occupancy in transitional metal and sodium layers. Moreover, the slow decrease of the elastic constants is a clear indication of the high cycle stability. These results provide a framework to exploit the potential of sodium-rich layered oxide, which may facilitate the development of high-performance electrode materials for sodium-ion batteries.

Effects of Immediate Stimulation on Single Nucleotide and Catecholamine Level in Chinese Tree Shrews

The present study examined the effects of the immediate stimuli on the levels of catecholamine and single nucleotide of Chinese tree shrew by using RIA approach. When tree shrews were under immediate stimulation, compared to the control animals, the levels of the epinephrine (E), norepinephrine (NE), adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), and cyclic guanosine phosphate (cGMP) in blood were significantly increased. Also, the acute stimulation could significantly enhance the cAMP and cGMP levels of the midbrain ventral tegmental area (VTA), prefrontal cortex (PFC), hippocampus (Hipp), and testis (Testicle), and the dopamine (DA) levels in PFC, Hipp, striatum, and nucleus accumbens (NAc). However, when tree shrews were treated with reserpine, both the E and NE levels were significantly reduced (P< 0.01), indicating that the reserpine interventions could reduce or prevent those stress-related damages. Also, the mitochondrial index (the volume density, surface density and density) in hippocampus cells were significantly increased by 55.21%, 55.21% and 55.21% respectively (P<0.01), compared to those of the control animals housed. Our results demonstrated that the immediate stimulus can significantly affect the synthesis and release of epinephrine, norepinephrine, DA, cMAP, and cGMP in Chinese tree shrews. This study was supported by the following Chinese funding agencies: the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31060283), the National Social Science Fund (07BSH054), the Lanzhou Social Science Fund (07-1-64), and the Academic Innovation Team Building Program Management of Gansu Institute of Political Science and Law (GZF2013CXTD003).

Application of Management Bionics to Technological Innovation in Agriculture

A study was done on agricultural enterprises technology innovation based on the management bionics method. From the perspective of bionics, this study investigates influence factors, mechanisms and team building of agricultural enterprises technology innovation based on the scientific and normative analysis of management bionics. Through standardized management bionic analogy analysis, the following analogies were drawn: agricultural enterprises technology innovation influence factors and the onion biological form, agricultural enterprises technology innovation mechanism and the biological enzyme catalytic reaction mechanism, agricultural enterprises technology innovation team building with the bee biological group effect. Therefore, three bionic element models of agricultural enterprises technology innovation were built, namely agricultural enterprises technology innovation onion model, technology innovation enzyme catalytic reaction bionic model and the bees’ team effect bionic model. This study ends with the corresponding bionic strategies and suggestions about agricultural enterprises technology innovation, which may provide references for the development of agricultural enterprises technology innovation in China. At the same time, this study also enriches the research range and theoretical system of management bionics.

Teambuilding across healthcare professions: The ELDER project

BackgroundThe key to ensuring quality care for older adults is a nursing workforce that collaborates across professions and provider levels (Wright M.C., Phillips-Bute, B.G., Petrusa, E.R., Griffin, K.L., Hobbs, G.W., & Taekman, J.M. (2008). Assessing teamwork in medical education and practice: Relating behavioural teamwork ratings and clinical performance. Med Teach, 29, 1-9). PurposeTo improve communication and teamwork among interprofessional health care providers (HCPs) by using innovative teambuilding activities over three years. MethodsParticipants: 97 multi-disciplinary HCPs from five long term or home care agencies in an underserved region of New England. Participants attended six interactive sessions focused on teambuilding skills through the use of role play, case studies, games, exercises and teambuilding strategies. The J. A. Hartford Foundation's (John A. Hartford Foundation. (2001). The John A. Hartford Foundation Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training (GITT) Program. Available at: http://www.nygec.org/index.cfm?section_id=26&sub_section_id=18&page_id=98) Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training (GITT) instrument and Interdisciplinary Teamwork IQ test were used to measure changes in knowledge and attitudes. ResultsT tests performed on matched pre/post GITT instruments (n=26) revealed no significant change, although scores improved slightly from pre: (71%) to post test (73.3%) (p=.39). Teamwork IQ scores also improved slightly though not significantly. Qualitative data gathered suggest that teambuilding exercises were helpful in practice and allowed for better understanding of other provider roles. ConclusionsRarely is a variety of health care disciplines invited to participate in educational opportunities together. The interprofessional small group methodology used is a replicable model with potential to overcome barriers in communication and teamwork skills.

Innovative Team Building Practices for Professionals: Developing Inter-Group Skills to Enhance Effective Performance

The complexities of bringing teams of professionals together to work in a sustained and effective manner toward a common goal are considerable. The necessary inter-group skills involved are often not a part of most professional preparation programs. This article describes an innovative workshop for secondary preservice teachers which targeted the development of communication, problem solving, and team building. Results are promising. Any team of individuals, whether it be a group of professors, a program that utilizes a cohort model (a group of individuals who go through a program or process together), or simply a group needing to develop effective inter-group skills, may benefit from similar workshops. The article invites continued discussion and research concerning the training of professionals in team building and inter-group skills.

Innovative team building: Synergistic human resource development

As the delivery of mental health services becomes increasingly complicated, effective utilization of human resources and improving quality of services have acquired heightened importance. This article describes the development of synergistic teams within mental health treatment settings to reach these goals. Leadership, disciplines, interdisciplinary work, functioning and process, and empowerment are also examined.

Focal lesions in the brain of growing rabbits produced by ultrasound

The key to ensuring quality care for older adults is a nursing workforce that collaborates across professions and provider levels (Wright M.C., Phillips-Bute, B.G., Petrusa, E.R., Griffin, K.L., Hobbs, G.W., & Taekman, J.M. (2008). Assessing teamwork in medical education and practice: Relating behavioural teamwork ratings and clinical performance. Med Teach, 29, 1-9).To improve communication and teamwork among interprofessional health care providers (HCPs) by using innovative teambuilding activities over three years.Participants: 97 multi-disciplinary HCPs from five long term or home care agencies in an underserved region of New England. Participants attended six interactive sessions focused on teambuilding skills through the use of role play, case studies, games, exercises and teambuilding strategies. The J. A. Hartford Foundation's (John A. Hartford Foundation. (2001). The John A. Hartford Foundation Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training (GITT) Program. Available at: http://www.nygec.org/index.cfm?section_id=26&sub_section_id=18&page_id=98) Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training (GITT) instrument and Interdisciplinary Teamwork IQ test were used to measure changes in knowledge and attitudes.T tests performed on matched pre/post GITT instruments (n = 26) revealed no significant change, although scores improved slightly from pre: (71%) to post test (73.3%) (p = .39). Teamwork IQ scores also improved slightly though not significantly. Qualitative data gathered suggest that teambuilding exercises were helpful in practice and allowed for better understanding of other provider roles.Rarely is a variety of health care disciplines invited to participate in educational opportunities together. The interprofessional small group methodology used is a replicable model with potential to overcome barriers in communication and teamwork skills.