Twenty-Four Hour Care Teams

The relevance of team characteristics and team directed strategies in the implementation of nursing innovations: A literature review

“…The publications had to meet each of the following three criteria for inclusion in the present review: (1) presentation of results of research on teams in healthcare, including nurses; (2) report on team directed strategies or team factors relevant to the introduction of the innovations; (3) description of an actual diffused and implemented innovation including ''intended practices''. A publication was excluded when the team itself was the innovation (i.e., ''Introduction of twenty-four hour care teams''; Townsend, 1994) or the team itself was the implementation strategy, i.e., ''The role of a specialist team in implementing continuing health care guidelines in hospitalized patients'' (Cockram et al, 1997). Data published in duplicate were included only once.…”