Collaborative Nursing: Recommendations for Team Charter and Communication Strategies

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Introduction:
The delivery of high quality and safe health care service is facilitated in a clinical setting
by the collaboration and contribution of multi-professional team. To recognize the goal of
effective and patient-centered health care delivery, effective team work and proper collaboration
is considered a necessary part of health care practice (Babiker et al., 2014) In response to the
launch of an inter-professional team that will be working on challenging cases, the purpose of
this report to provide recommendations for team charter to support establishing ground rules and
expectation and propose communication and collaboration strategies to effective collaboration
between multi-professional team.
Team charter recommendation:
Since team members from different specialization are going to work as inter-professional
team, it is necessary to clarify all team members regarding ground rules and expectations to
minimize conflicts, difference in expectation and reduce medical errors. The following team
charter recommendation is proposed for the efficiency of the team:
 It is necessary to establish ground rules and expectations for the multi-professional team
by making all members very clear about their own role and the expectation and standards
of care needed while handling critical cases. To help every member contribute equally to
team work, establishing role clarity is essential. This will increase the likelihood of team
success and each member’s satisfaction with the work too (Bosch & Mansell, 2015). In
addition, setting performance standards and expectations for patient safety is necessary so
that uniformity and consistency of performance can be maintained. The leader of the

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team can establish performance norms and frame expectations that emphasize on patient
safety (Balki et al., 2017). For example, practice guidelines related to patient safety can
be distributed and each member can be educated about their role in patient safety.
 When members from different specialization will come together to work as a multi-
professional team, there are high chances of conflict because of lack of trust and differences
in personality and expectations of each team members. For example, difference in opinion
may exist regarding handling any patient case. Other sources of team conflict may include
role boundary issue, scope of practice and accountability issues. Such issues may deteriorate
team performance and lead to loosely coordinated team relationship. This eventually will
have an impact on the outcome of patient (Bosch & Mansell, 2015). Hence, the best conflict
resolution strategies for multiprofessional team include developing team resolution protocols
and leadership interventions to resolve conflict. For instance, team resolution protocols can
instruct member regarding focusing on problem solving and working with shared goals.
Leaders can also encourage members to develop values of respect and humility and learn to
negotiate. Open communication is also the best step to resolve conflict (Brown et al., 2011).
 One of the threats to the efficiency of the new multi-professional team includes the team
leadership issue. For instance, if ideal leader is not present in the team, gap in collaboration
and team efficiency may exist. It can have an impact on process quality and patient safety too
(McFadden, Stock & Gowen III, 2015). Hence, leadership strategy is crucial to achieve a
competitive age. To choose the member who will lead the team, the preference should be
given to individuals who possess leadership competencies like experience in clinical practice,
good management attributes, commitment to improve health of population and accepting
rules, regulations and code of conducts. For example, such individuals should have a sense of