Non-technical Skills in Healthcare

AbstractNon-technical Skills (NTS) are a set of generic cognitive and social skills, exhibited by individuals and teams, that support technical skills when performing complex tasks. Typical NTS training topics include performance shaping factors, planning and preparation for complex tasks, situation awareness, perception of risk, decision-making, communication, teamwork and leadership. This chapter provides a framework for understanding these skills in theory and practice, how they interact, and how they have been applied in healthcare, as well as avenues for future research

Nonlinear softening and hardening nonlocal bending stiffness of an initially curved monolayer graphene

In the present article, the governing nonlinear nonlocal elastic equations are obtained for a monolayer graphene with an initial curvature and the related softening and hardening bending stiffness is analytically calculated. The effects of large deformation, initial curvature, discreteness and direction of chiral vector on the bending stiffness of the monolayer graphene are discussed in detail. A behavior more complex than previously reported in the literature emerges. It is found that the bending stiffness of graphene strongly depends on the initial configuration, showing not obvious maxima and minima, and suggesting the possibility of a smart tuning