The Teaching leadership for health professionals in the context of cardiorespiratory arrest: an integrative review

Abstract

Cardiorespiratory arrest has a high prevalence among cardiovascular emergencies and the care provided by health professionals must be of excellence. Therefore, there is a need to prepare health professionals to deal with such situations with regard not only to the performance of technical skills, but also to the performance of non-technical skills, with leadership being exercised within the teams, crucial for a satisfactory outcome. The study aims to identify evidence in the literature regarding the strategies used in teaching leadership to health professionals in the context of cardiac arrest. This is an integrative literature review with searches in the CINAHL, MEDLINE, LILACS and WEB OF SCIENCE databases. The final sample included 4 studies, carried out in developed countries and with a relatively low level of evidence; among the strategies for teaching leadership, the practice of simulation in association with learning assessment methods predominated, showing good results in terms of leadership performance and the outcome of cardiac arrest. It is recommended that other studies evaluate leadership teaching strategies in the context of cardiorespiratory arrest in heterogeneous teams and in developing countries.

Keywords

• Leadership teaching
• Health professionals
• cardiorespiratory arrest