Reflection on Team Project

Running Head: REFLECTION ON TEAM PROJECT
REFLECTION ON TEAM PROJECT

REFLECTION ON TEAM PROJECT2
Introduction
A team activity was carried out with a group of students in the rural communities
regarding influenza in elderly people, which I was a part of. As future nurses, this was one of
the practice activities to increase our awareness regarding our jobs and making us more able.
I was placed in a team of four.
Experiences while working within the team and my contribution to the team.
Driscol’s model of reflection has been used in the following to reflect upon the
experience while working within the team and my contribution to the team.
What
In the very beginning all the members were thoroughly educated and informed about
influenza, its causes, the health and environmental conditions that facilitate it, the symptoms,
and the ways to prevent influenza along with treating it. The importance of such knowledge
was made clear to us as the nature of our task demands. The task of the team was to, explore
the influenza cases in the rural communities to understand more about how social,
environmental and hygiene factors contribute towards influenza (Vemula et al. 2016). We
showed them and explained to them with the help of charts and videos we had prepared the
measures they can take to prevent influenza. In the end, we provided the vaccination and
medicines that were required to prevent and cure the flu in the people of that community.
So What
Adhering to the research of All et al. (2017), myself along with other three members
of our team divided our work equally into four parts so that no one had any problem with
their roles. This was applied in every aspect of our task, the four of us investigated into four
subtopics of influenza, we made the charts and videos for awareness and prevention together
(Souty et al. 2015). Even during the distribution of medicines and giving vaccines, we took
turns in a divided group of two.
What now
Working in this team I developed good relations with my fellow teammates. We were
able to establish a rapport within ourselves which helped us to work better as a team and seek
each other’s help whenever there was a need (Cox and Mungall, 2017). We chose our own
team leader, who turned out to be quite efficient. However, at times I had to stand up to the
task regulating the tasks in the group. I refrained myself from the creation of the charts for
most of the parts and my team was adjustable enough to balance that by making me the main
spokesperson for the awareness task considering my communicative skills.