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According to the Army Field Manual September , situational awareness is:. An informational perspective and skill that fosters an ability to determine quickly the context and relevance of events that are unfolding. What does situational awareness mean in the healthcare context? The concept has been applied to the analysis of patient safety and healthcare quality issues. These systems are useful tools, and may even be essential tools, but they do not in and of themselves provide situational awareness.
To achieve situational awareness, the right information without a lot of noise is available at the right time, and the right person is prepared to receive it, is capable of analyzing it, and is then able to do something useful with it. This raises a number of issues, the most fundamental of which is, what information is actually needed in a disaster?
What information really makes a difference? In fact, the information needed probably varies with the type of event, and different actors involved in emergency response need different information. The following are some of the existing systems and programs that relate to healthcare situational awareness.
It is not a comprehensive list, but it illustrates the diversity of types of systems. For the most part, these systems were designed as stand-alone systems and are not integrated. BioWatch the U. BioSense the U. In addition, there are emergency operations or information fusion centers at the local, state, and federal levels whose purpose is to merge the various streams of information. While these surveillance efforts undoubtedly provide information flows that did not exist before, it is not clear to what extent they have enabled a more robust understanding of a rapidly unfolding event.
How do, or how can, these diverse systems, programs, and centers work together to provide an integrated picture? Can decision makers use these systems effectively to direct action in a crisis?
Do these systems provide the necessary information in real time? It seems overall that there has been much more emphasis placed on systems to detect outbreaks rather than on systems to manage outbreaks. It appears that there is a lot of technology, but relatively little science. Systems exist without a clear concept of operation. The current novel H1N1 epidemic has provided a real-life test of our situational awareness capabilities.
One thing that we certainly learned from this outbreak is that situational awareness is critically important—it drives policy decisions. Decisions regarding school closings, PPE guidance, and antiviral use are all dependent on knowing key characteristics of the epidemic in real time, including the severity of illness, the basic epidemiology eg, R value, serial interval , the transmission characteristics, and the extent of dissemination of the disease in the community.
Traditionally, these characteristics have been determined in retrospect after careful epidemiologic investigation, but intervention strategies now in place presume knowledge of these characteristics. Therefore, as we have seen, in a nascent pandemic that arrived in the U. The same would be true for other contagious diseases, such as SARS. To estimate these characteristics, one must be able to identify those who have died, those who are seriously ill, and those with mild disease.
This requires a capability for rapid and reliable diagnostic testing, near real-time disease surveillance, and the ability to quickly reach down to the bedside to get clinical information. In the current outbreak, we found that there was inadequate capacity for accurate rapid diagnostic testing. Rapid antigen tests were unreliable insensitive and nonspecific. Moreover, laboratories had difficulty keeping up with the volume of tests.
We also learned that systems for syndromic surveillance did not seem to provide an adequate picture of the scope of the outbreak quickly enough. Reportedly, BioSense data corroborated the ILInet data, but whether it provided further useful information is not yet clear. One unexpected finding is that apparently a large outbreak of clinically mild disease can fly under the surveillance radar, because most surveillance systems are designed to look for people who are sick enough to seek medical care.
Some systems collect data on other surge indicators, such as the volume of purchase of OTC medication, but it is not known if these systems have been useful in the current outbreak. The Google Flu Trends system that tracks influenza-related internet searches revealed only a minimal spike.
Why do we care about people who are not sick enough to see a doctor? Because that information is needed to understand the severity and epidemiology of the outbreak, and this understanding drives important policy decisions. This especially applies to healthcare, aviation and other high-risk sectors where errors can have severe consequences. In other organizations, errors or other unexpected deviations can undermine organizational performance.
The concept of situational awareness has been around for many years. In that time, both scholars and practitioners confirmed the benefits associated with situational awareness in the area of error prevention and performance improvement Brady et al. Regardless of whether you are in the private or public sector, having such a management tool at hand is an important asset for your professional development. One of the key concepts of situational awareness is the distinction between a person or system and the environment.
The environment refers to everything important that is going on around a person. A focus on important elements of the environment emphasizes that situational awareness is always about getting someting done.
This can be a task, a project or anything else that requires interaction with relevant elements of the person's environment. In the aviation industry the environment of a pilot is the aircraft cockpit , the weather and traffic situation as well as the air traffic controller the pilot is in contact with. In the business sector, the environment of a project manager is the project team, internal and external stakeholders, the project progress and all relevant project stakeholders e.
On the most basic level, situational awareness is about knowing what is going on in the environment and its implications for the present and the future Endsley While this might sound straightforward in a stable and simple situation, it can become a real challenge in a fast paced and complex environment. This makes situational awareness a concept that is especially relevant for situations characterized by a high level of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity VUCA.
There is almost no project without deviations. The source of project deviations can be a change of customer requirements, unforeseen issues during implementation phase or simply mistakes that can lead to time and cost overruns. The earlier deviations are recognized, the smaller their impact is on the project progress.
As a project manager, a high level of situational awareness can make your life much easier as you are able to avoid issues from the very beginning. Reaching a high level of safety , productivity and quality is one of the most important objectives in operations. Whether it is in supply chain management, manufacturing or server administration, you need to be aware of the full picture to avoid accidents, a loss of productivity or service disruptions.
For instance, recognizing an attack on your IT infrastructure as early as possible can tremendously reduce to risk of unplanned downtime. The same applies to an unsafe situation on a manufacturing plant shopfloor. A high level of situational awareness ensures that unsafe situations are recognized as critical, are addressed, and that countermeasures are implemented. One of the key objectives of situational awareness is error identification and prevention. In a similar way situational awareness can contribute to the continuous improvement process in teams and organizations on two levels.
First, improved situational awareness can help to identify issues before negative consequences emerge. Second, the concept helps to go through a structured learning process and identify situations which could have been avoided with a proper level of situational awareness. This makes situational awareness a management tool to drive organizational learning. Various models of situational awareness have been developed Stanton et al.
The most popular and from our point of view most practicable one is the three-level model from Endsley :. The first level of situational awareness is about perceiving the relevant information. This has two important implications.
First, the person must have access to the relevant information. Seconds, once access is in place, the person has to recognize it. Consequently, one of the key requirements of level 1 SA is communication and proper visualization.
As a consequence, he lacks level 1 SA which makes it hard to make the right decisions moving on with the project in the right direction. Interestingly, level 1 SA seems to be one of the key contributors of accidents in the healthcare and aviation sector. For instance, Schulz et al. Jones and Endsley come to a similar conclusion in their analysis of aviation accidents. The second level of situational awareness refers to the requirement to properly comprehend the relevant information.
Depending on the specific situation, this requires the right knowledge to deal with the acquired information. Mental models play an important role in level 2 SA Jones and Endsley This is because the person creates a new mental model or updates an existing one based on how the information is interpreted. When there is anything important missing or the information is incorrect, the mental model is flawed.
As a consequence, the person experiences a breakdown on level 2 SA. An example of level 2 SA is a project manager who is informed about a delayed project deliverable. Having in mind the overall project schedule, the project manager updates his mental model about the project status based on the newly received information.
Jones and Endsley and Schulz et al. Examples include a lack of knowledge how to operate equipment, wrong assumptions how to operate it or simply errors in the way procedures are implemented.
The last and final level 3 SA refers to predicting the future state based on the information perceived and comprehended. This is especially critical when dynamic processes are projected into the future based on wrong assumptions. For instance, complex systems are characterized by a high level of interdependencies.
This makes it hard to predict how changes in one variable might influence the overall system state. Wrong or not up-to-date mental models are another source of level 3 SA breakdown. This requires him to consider how deliverables, project delays, and other relevant issues impact the overall project progress. Furthermore, he will decide whether the project should be implemented as planned or countermeasures to get back on track are required.
There are many benefits associated with situational awareness. First, situational awareness is important to prevent errors and deviations. There is a wealth of research that confirms this claim.
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