Teamwork in Nursing: Functions and Importance in Healthcare

This report delves into the critical role of teamwork in nursing, emphasizing its importance in enhancing patient care and improving healthcare service delivery. It explores the functions of teamwork, including improved patient satisfaction, higher job satisfaction for nurses, and reduced staff turnover. The report highlights essential skills for effective teamwork, such as communication, problem-solving, listening, and creativity. It further examines the purpose and functions of nurse practitioners within a team, emphasizing their role in delivering effective healthcare, collaborating with physicians, and contributing to patient treatment plans. The study concludes that teamwork is essential for nursing practitioners to achieve patient care goals by fostering collaboration and effective communication, ultimately leading to better patient outcomes. The report underscores the need for strong collaborative relationships among healthcare professionals to ensure well-organized and comprehensive care.

Team working in
Nursing

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Team working in Nursing...........................................................................................................3
Ability of team working in nursing.............................................................................................4
Functions & purpose of nurse practitioner in a team work.........................................................5
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Teamwork develop up the capableness of nursed and other healthcare helper to execute
higher quality and more effective and holistic healthcare. In Service nativity or delivery is
predominate in the area of nursing and teamwork is one of the centre argument of the good
service delivery. For evidence based nursing practices following essay outline the concept and
importance of team work in nursing(Soni, 2020). Moreover, concept of team working in nursing
is all about sharing responsibility of health care equally the foremost leap by any a nursing
group. Following essay presents the key approaches and objectives of team working in nursing in
order to establish evidence based nursing practice in the healthcare. To support more, various
functions and purposes of the nurse practitioner were also being discussed in order to determine
and demonstrate the importance of team work in nursing. Additional nurse practitioner are
employed d in team along with the practitioner to support to meet need for out-of -hours care.
Teamwork in nursing is important because nurses are the front line of the healthcare and are
touching every aspect of the patient's treatment journey so their collaboration and teamwork is
necessary in order to attain quality care service goals(Lavelle and et. al., 2019).
MAIN BODY
Team working in Nursing
Team working is the practice of completing an task to achieve common goal in a group
which is having more than one person. Team is assigned to complete task in very rapidly and in
effective and efficient way. Team working help to make good relationship with co-workers
because working together can provide a chance of understanding each other and communicate
with each other properly. It also enhance more communication within the group because without
communication team work is useless and the most important factor which must be consider
under team working is coordination which describe the effectiveness of any team in any
field(Holland, 2019).In context of nursing, team work is very important due to further reasons- Improves patient satisfaction and outcome- in healthcare professions the teams are made
for nurses, primary care physicians and specialists and their main aim is to enhance the
and look after the health of each and every patient in their hospitals. An hospital has huge
number of patients. So, it is impossible to handle all patients together by a single person,

that's why they form a team to look after every patient and coordinate with each other for
any requirements which further help in improving patients satisfaction level and it
reduces the burden of a single person. Higher job satisfaction- nursing careers are having lot of stress due to their long hour of
working in critical situations of patients. It is compulsory them to form a team to reduce
their burden and enjoy their daily responsibilities which make them more happy and
satisfied by their jobs.
 Lower rates of turnover- staff turnover is the biggest issue in hospitals and one of the
main reason is that employees are assigned with lot of responsibilities which they have to
completed in short period of time (Eisenberg, Post and DiTomaso, 2019). Hence, team
work help them to complete assigned work with others who has same ability and
capabilities. Teamwork help employees to reduce stress and love their job which further
impact to declining in number of total turnover from hospitals.
Ability of team working in nursing
It is very necessary to have some special skills to work in a team and these skills and
abilities are explained below-
Communication skills- This is the most important skill in nursing field which must
gained by an individual to work with a team effectively and efficiently(Mayer and et. al., 2019).
Written, verbal and other all form of communication is necessary where an individual explain
their ideas with body language so others will understand the things very easily. Team work
consist with communication skill because when 4-5 or more people are doing the same task in
hospital and did not communicate with each other that which part of work is done by whom and
which not then this will create a major confusion between team mates and sometimes it also
leads to develop wrong direction of doing work in absence of communication. Hence,
communication is essential for smooth and effective working environment in a team.
Problem solving skills- For completing an task in health care it might be possible that
obstacles or key issues will create and when the task is done by a group of people then the
percentage of arising problems must increases (Li and Yue, 2019). Problems like conflicts, did
not like each other ideas, time management, lack of knowledge and many other factors are
common in hospitals team work. Hence, it is compulsory for each team member that they have
the capability of solving problem on the spot when it arises. For example, when 4 people are

working in a team and divided their task in 4 different parts then it is the responsibility of all to
handle problem which arise in their assigned task and if one is not able to solve it then others
help them to give ideas of solving the issues.
Listening and feedback skills- While performing in a team it is compulsory for every
team member to listen what other members are saying, understanding their words and giving
feedback whether they understand or not and if they dislike the idea then they supposed to tell it
why they dislike the idea and what other things must be considered for completing the task.
Hence, it is compulsory that an individual in health care must have the ability of listening and
giving feedback to their team mates.
Creativity skill- A group of people is performed for giving various ideas which help in
completing nursing task quickly and effectively in different way(Urbani, 2020). It is essential
that team members have creative minds to give ideas that how differently and uniquely they are
eligible to perform their work to represent them in front of others.
Functions & purpose of nurse practitioner in a team work
The particular care nurse practitioner team demonstrate a essential supply of goof care
provider in order to meet the demand for care. hence, the primary purpose of nurse practitioner in
teamwork is to render and delivery a effective and remarkable healthcare which meet the demand
and essential of the healthcare. The ultimate of team work in nursing is regards to the patients
health care this is because patients care is top priority of healthcare in nursing and in order to
give best probable care there is need of nurses communication with applicable professional about
the patients treatment plan so that better nursing practitioner can be assigned in nursing which
would give better care(Mukherjee and et. al., 2019). Moreover, teamwork in nursing is a rational
motive because in collaborative environment where nursing practitioner are practising for longer
duration and the role of each nursing is appeared clear and transparent.
The primary function of nursing practitioner in a teamwork is to work along with the
general physician in order to better understand about the patients treatment and gain more insight
about the patients complexity. During working in a team the case manager of team practitioner
took the charge of patients and support the case manager in during analysing the investigation
and diagnosing practises. The other assign nursing practitioner records the above instate in
patients treatment summery and the developing patients care plan and conducive and ordering
the administering and diagnosing tests. In order to achieve better healthcare goals, the primary

function nursing healthcare is to work in multidisciplinary team whose common goal is to meet
the demand of care. Nurse practitioner in teamwork in evidence based nursing practice are
leading important role in the interference and health promotion across the lifespan(Barbara and
et. al., 2019). The foremost function of nursing is to habits strong collaborative relation with the
specialist that included joint-sharing and even shift responsibility between them to meet patient
need. Although all the nursing practitioner are playing a significant role in every patients care
because they are the front line worker in patients healthcare journey. Moreover, nurse practice
can impact the healthcare market care offering so it is advised that function of every nursing
practitioner should be adhering towards the multidisciplinary teamwork in order to achieve
quality and meaningful patients care goals.
CONCLUSION
Therefore, from the above carried out study it has been concluded that teamwork is
essential phenomena in nursing which build and improve the capability of nursing practitioner to
deliver better healthcare services. However, one of the crucial aspect which were concluded that
team work is highlighted and appreciated the nursing practitioner, therefore nurses need to work
in a team to realise the goals of patient care need and improve their healthcare service delivery in
more effective manner. Teamwork in nursing is crucial and rational reason for this evidence
based research is that nurses are working closely alongside of specialise and physicians in order
to deliver well-organised and compressive care. Therefore report has concluded that teamwork is
curial in nursing to leverage effective communication which encourage positive patients
outcomes.

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