Importance of Nursing Teamwork in Complex Care

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Introduction:
Contemporary healthcare industry is usually built around proper multidisciplinary
approach to effective patient care. Nurses usually work closely alongside the team of
healthcare professionals and the healthcare specialists for provision of well-organized and
comprehensive care. Importance of teamwork pertaining to the nursing background lies in the
fact that it facilitates effective communication along with the promotion of positive outcomes
of the patient. Cardiac arrest usually occurs when there is cessation of umping of blood
around the body (Wong et al., 2015). This happens mainly with patients where the electrical
signals to the heart is disrupted lading to ultimate collapse of the person and reduced
breathing. Leadership skills and effective teamwork is important in healthcare for patients
suffering from cardiac arrest. Proper teamwork and effective management is required for the
patients suffering from cardiac arrest because there are decreasing admissions in healthcare
institutions, reduced mortality and morbidity along with the necessity of the quality of care in
the life of heart failure patient. In the following task a media annotation would be constructed
on the base of the case study where the patients suffering from cardiac arrest. Moreover, it
highlights the importance of nursing and effective teamwork among the healthcare
professionals for an effective nursing care and management.
Discussion:
As the video starts, it was seen that the patient was having difficulty related to her
health condition and she was found breathing heavily. When the nurse entered, the patient
complaint that she is having difficulty in breathing, her chest is feeling tight and she tried to
use her inhaler but it did not work. The nurse then calls for her rest of the team of help. The
patient went through some surgery and was on rest, she did not have any previous history of
asthma. As the patient faints due to shortness of breath, the nursing team started providing

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her with compression. The nurse then provides her with 1mg of Epidural and was delivered
with normal saline and shock was also delivered. After 2 minutes of duration, the pulse rate
was checked and the compression giver was switched. The whole process took place for three
time and at the end of which the pulse was observed in the patient. Later the hypothermia
protocol was initiated (YouTube, 2019).
The video highlights the teamwork and the coordination among the nurses which is
one of the effective and essential factor for providing a better nursing care to a patient. A
nursing team must consist of knowledge and abilities such as technical skills, communication,
previous experience, and leadership qualities which influences the course of accomplishment
while providing a better nursing care. The nurses provide the patient with Thoracic epidural
analgesia as she has gone through cardiac surgery. The Thoracic epidural analgesia is found
to produce cardiac sympathectomy which will ultimately lead towards the conditions minimal
humoral, stable hemodynamic, homeostatic alterations, metabolic and immunosuppression
(Rice et al., 2015). The cardiac arrest faced by the patient is one of the serious health
condition which may lead to morbidity in a patient if not provided treatment on emergency
basis (YouTube, 2019). A nursing team needs to be quick and advanced enough to take
instant action in such condition in order to void nay kind of complications or death of the
patient. Also the nursing team in such a condition must be advanced enough to consist of
proper information and knowledge that is related to the patient’s health history and treatment
conditions.
Strengths:
In order to provide a better care giving to the patient, it is essential to develop an
effective nursing team. In order to accomplish the requirement of an effective nursing team,
the nursing facilities must focus on specific strengths. There were few strengths that were
highlighted in the video such as effective communication (Riley, 2015). After going through