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Healthcare Team Vitality Instrument

Instrument Author:

Upenieks, Valda V., Lee, Elizabeth A., Flanagan, Mindy E., Doebbeling, Bradley N.

Source title:

Healthcare Team Vitality Instrument (HTVI): developing a tool assessing healthcare team functioning

Source:

Upenieks, V. V., Lee, E. A., Flanagan, M. E., & Doebbeling, B. N. (2010). Healthcare Team Vitality Instrument (HTVI): developing a tool assessing healthcare team functioning. [Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov’t]. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 66(1), 168-176.

Source Author:

Upenieks, Valda V., Lee, Elizabeth A., Flanagan, Mindy E., Doebbeling, Bradley N.

Journal Name:

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volume:

66

Issue/Part:

1

Year:

2010

Pagination:

168-76

Abstract:

AIM: This paper is a report of a study conducted to refine, shorten and validate the Healthcare Team Vitality Instrument. BACKGROUND: The Healthcare Team Vitality Instrument was developed to assess team vitality of nurses as well as other licensed and unlicensed personnel working as part of healthcare teams in inpatient hospital units. This instrument was necessary for two reasons. First, other commonly used instruments assess characteristics of Registered Nurses or perceptions about and characteristics of the organizations in which they work, but not these factors in combination with critical factors of interdisciplinary team functioning and collaboration. Second, a short tool for repeated, regular measurement of team vitality was needed to track the impact of changes to improve work environments. METHOD: Revisions to the Healthcare Team Vitality Instrument occurred in two phases. Phase 1 entailed collecting preliminary data and conducting cognitive interviews to refine the initial items. During Phase 2, the factor structure of the Healthcare Team Vitality Instrument was identified and a brief form developed and validated. Data were collected in 2006 and 2007. FINDINGS: Exploratory factor analyses suggested a four-factor solution with the following dimensions: (1) support structures, (2) engagement and empowerment, (3) patient care transitions and (4) team communication. CONCLUSION: The Healthcare Team Vitality Instrument can contribute both to better management practices and advancing knowledge to promote retention of nurses, and to some extent other healthcare professionals, as well as efforts to transform the acute healthcare work environment.

Descriptors:

Delivery of health care
Nursing staff
Outcome and process assessment
Patient care team
Job satisfaction

Number of questions:

10

Response Options:

5 point Likert response set (1, strongly disagree and 5, strongly agree)

Validity:

Convergent validity was assessed and researcher should review article for full details of these psychometric properties estimates.

Reliability:

n/a

Subscale/Factors:

4 dimensions: Support structures, Engagement & Empowerment, Team Communication, Patient Care Transitions

Sample Descriptors:

Adults
Healthcare providers
United States

Sample Items:

“Staff members feel free to suggest ways to improve the way we do our work on this unit.”

Measure Descriptors:

Team vitality

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Readability Index:

n/a

Availability:

Contact author: vupeniek@ucla.edu

Acronym:

HTVI

DOI:

10.1111/j.1365-2648.2009.05137.x

ISBN:

n/a

ISSN:

1365-2648