Teamwork in Healthcare Nursing PDF

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TEAMWORK IN HEALTHCARE NURSING:Teamwork in healthcare nursing:
Interdisciplinary teamwork is one of the most efficient aspects of delivering healthcare to
patients that ensure not only patient satisfaction but also ensures safe and quality care of the
patients. It may be defined as the two or more people who can interact interdependently with
each other to serve a common purpose (Kalisch et al., 2015). The nursing professionals in a team
are seen to work towards a measurable goal that in turn benefits from effective leadership.
Effective leadership in teamwork helps to maintain stability in the team while encouraging
honest discussion about the needs and requirements of the patients, effective feedback sharing
within the professionals and working collaboratively in problem solving. This assignment will
show importance of teamwork in nursing, facilitators of effective teamwork in nursing. Barriers
to teamwork and recommendations to develop teamwork.
Importance of teamwork:
In the present generation, clinical care is becoming complex day by day. With the
advancement of the medical and scientific inventions in the present generation, the life
expectancy of people had increased. However, the older population although living longer lives
are going through poor quality of their lives due to a number of chronic disorders that are
occurring to them as co morbid disorders (Orr, 2017). Treatments of such complex care requires
teamwork among the nurses as only one nurse cannot care for all the disorders of the patients
with the same affectivity as more number of nurses can result by their collaborative output on the
health of the patients. Better the teamwork among the healthcare nurses, the patient would
achieve higher quality of care and this would include patient satisfaction and patient recovery.

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TEAMWORK IN HEALTHCARE NURSING:Many other benefits are associated with effective teamwork among the nurses.
Researchers have found out that when nursing professionals work together, there is reduction in
the number of medication errors and reduction in waiting times of the patients (Yi, 2016). This
would increase patient safety. It also helps in reduction of the burnouts among the nursing
professionals. Effective coordination helps in reduction of the emotional pressures and work
burdens on the nurses and help in equal distribution among the members. This reduces excessive
work burden on some and helps in equal distribution of the burden among many thereby
preventing occupational health hazard.
Facilitators of effective teamwork in nursing:
Effective leadership:
Effective leadership is one of the most important aspects of a successful teamwork in nursing.
Often the nursing professionals may face various types of issues that affect collaborative work
output in the healthcare systems. The main stakeholder who faces a loss and goes through
suffering is the patient. Therefore, the most important activity of a leader in a team is to keep the
team accountable (Weller, Boyd & Cumin, 2014). Many members of a team are highly proactive
while there are many members who conceal themselves with the idea that their work would be
done by others. The leader of the nurses take the duty of effective monitoring and evaluation and
ensures that work is equally shared by all so that chances of burn outs become less. They are also
seen to empower the team members by making them motivate to work beyond their potentials.
They also help to simplify the goals and helps by streamlining the decision making process. They
also take part in orientation and education of the embers so that they can work with correct
behavior and attitude in teams (Tofil et al., 2014). They also take part in nurturing as well as