Importance of Teamwork in Healthcare: Skills and Characteristics Required

TEAMWORK IN
HEALTHCARE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Skills and characteristics required in health and care roles at team work...................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Teamwork in health means two or more individual who interact or communicate
interdependently with same purpose, working on the way to archive goals that satisfy from the
leadership which helps in maintain stability while improve problem solving and honest
discussion (Rosen, and et.al., 2018). This report includes importance of teamwork in health and
care with suitable example.
MAIN BODY
Skills and characteristics required in health and care roles at team work
Teamwork is very important in every sector, in simple words when two or more people
are interact for a common purpose is called teamwork (Peduzzi and Agreli., 2018.). Working in a
team improves professional satisfaction, increase clinical outcomes and gives critical peer
support. Teamwork helps nurses and patients as it reduce the level of patient stress may
experience and positive outcomes. For managing a team its very important that leader should
have leadership quality such as humility, vision, positivity in nature, accountability, resilience,
influence and empathy. Leadership is not only about to manage people in a team while
leadership is all about motivating and inspiring people which they never belief they could (van
Diggele, and et.al., 2020). Teamwork in healthcare create employee togetherness ans decrease
nursing and medical errors which resulting in better patient satisfaction and enhance healthcare.
A good team have common purpose, mutual trust, clear understand objective, effective skills,
value members and respect between team members. All professional needs to be aware about the
benefits of good team working such as productivity, staff morale, improve performance and
patient satisfaction. An effective team in healthcare includes decision-making expertise and
responsibility towards patients care. Professionals in healthcare plays an important role in
individuals lives such as gives patients preventive medication, educate individual about cures,
prevention, and other tips, prevention from spreading diseases, provide information how they