After an emergency surgery, a nurse counts all the supplies and notices that a sponge is missing. The surgeon asks the
nurse if she removed the sponge, and she replies that she thinks the surgeon removed it. Nobody on the team can
account for the missing sponge. What best describes this scenario?
good communication between the team
an undesirable outcome caused by poor teamwork
a negative effect of good teamwork
a positive outcome caused by good teamwork
