Center Team Training Courses & Workshops

AHA Team Training | Virtual | August 5-19, 2025

Join our dynamic TeamSTEPPS Essentials Course, now available as a 3-part virtual course on Zoom! Grounded in the updated TeamSTEPPS 3.0 framework, this course highlights key principles and concepts, while focusing on specific tools for end-user needs and application. Designed with busy schedules in mind, it’s perfect for first-time learners interested in improving teamwork and communication, as well as those with previous TeamSTEPPS training looking to refresh their skills. Participants will learn how to effectively use and implement these tools within their own teams and work areas.

Designed for health care professionals and students from any clinical or nonclinical setting or discipline, this engaging series offers practical strategies to enhance team performance and patient care. Explore key principles through interactive sessions on communication, leadership, mutual support and situation monitoring. Each session includes real-world scenarios, hands-on practice, and discussions with peers from across the country, ensuring you can apply these tools in your daily work. Don’t miss this chance to boost team performance and make a real impact on safety, efficiency and satisfaction in your health care environment.

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Patient, Fmaily & Care Team: Leading Teams, Mutual Support, Siutation Monitoring, Communication

Benefits of our TeamSTEPPS Essentials course:

  • Interprofessional faculty. Learn from your clinical and nonclinical colleagues who have been using and teaching TeamSTEPPS for years.
  • Professional development. Build leadership skills needed to improve quality outcomes, workforce resilience and patient safety.
  • Practical strategies and tools. Learn the basics of TeamSTEPPS 3.0 tools and principles that you can immediately use in your daily work.
  • CE credit and TeamSTEPPS certificate. Receive 4 hours (or equivalent) of continuing education credit and a TeamSTEPPS Essentials certificate of completion.

Course Schedule and Overview

The current cohort of this virtual course runs August 5 through 19, 2025.

Over the course of 3 weeks, participants will be introduced or refreshed on the key principles and tools of TeamSTEPPS 3.0 with focus on ender-user needs and application. Each weekly session is highly interactive, and it is encouraged that participants attend live but recordings will be made available following the session.

This course will take place on Zoom across three weeks totaling 4 hours. The first two sessions are 90 minutes and the last session is 60 minutes.

Detailed Course Schedule

View weekly details including topics and live session dates

 

Registration

 
 

This course is designed for frontline staff and new team members in organizations with an existing TeamSTEPPS program along with clinical and nonclinical professionals and students new to TeamSTEPPS looking for a basic, time-efficient introduction.

The registration fee is $500 per person. This fee includes course materials, continuing education credits, and a TeamSTEPPS Essentials certificate. Everyone is welcome to attend, however teams are strongly encouraged.

For teams of 3 to 9 attendees, we offer a team discount of $50 off each person's registration, dropping the price to $450 per person; for teams of 10 or more, we offer a team discount of $100 off each person's registration, dropping the price to $400 per person. To get the team discount, please complete online registration for all team members in a single session. The team discount(s) will be automatically applied as team members are added. If you would like to register team members individually, or add team members to an existing group, please email TeamTraining@aha.org to receive instructions.

If you registered for this course but can no longer attend, you may send a substitute or request a refund. View our substitutions, cancellations and refunds policy to learn more.

 
 

Course Faculty

Jennifer Braun, MPH

 

Director, Workforce and Organizational Development

 

AHA Center for Health Innovation, American Hospital Association

 

 

 

Rhonda Fischer, RN BSN, CEN

 

Team Training Clinical Program Lead

 

AHA Center for Health Innovation, American Hospital Association

 

 

 

Additional Course Details

  • The course is best suited for frontline staff and new team members in organizations with an existing TeamSTEPPS program along with clinical and nonclinical professionals and students new to TeamSTEPPS looking for a basic, time-efficient introduction. The course is taught by an interprofessional faculty team who will ensure that course examples and discussions are relevant and useful to participants from a variety of backgrounds and settings.

    • Who attends TeamSTEPPS Essentials courses? Registered nurses, advanced practice registered nurses, physicians, physician assistants, technicians, pharmacists, medical or dental residents/interns, pre-professional students and non-clinical professionals including those in academia, quality, administrative and patient safety
    • Where do attendees come from? Hospitals and health systems (including medical offices and clinics), pre-professional academic institutions, ambulatory care facilities, nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, acute long-term care hospitals, governmental agencies, military treatment facilities, associations and non-profits

  • This course will take place on Zoom across three weeks totaling 4 hours. The first two sessions are 90 minutes and the last session is 60 minutes.

    • Tuesday, August 5 from 12:00-1:30 pm CT
    • Tuesday, August 12 from 12:00-1:30 pm CT
    • Tuesday, August 19 from 12:00-1:00 pm CT

  • This course will cover the following learning objectives:

    • Identify common communication and teamwork related challenges in health care
    • Learn core TeamSTEPPS tools and how they can help to overcome communication and teamwork related challenges
    • Practice the use of the TeamSTEPPS tools in practical scenarios and simulations
    • Learn how the tools can be effectively implemented in the health care setting

  • In order to effectively participate in the course, attendees will need to join the AHA Team Training Learning Center, our hub for virtual courses and resources. The Learning Center is where participants will have access to all course materials and be able to connect with both course faculty and fellow learners. More details on how to use our Learning Center will be provided after registration.

  • Participants will earn 4 credits by attending the course and completing all CE requirements. CE credit is provided by Duke University Health System Clinical Education & Professional Development. They are accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).