Nursing Leadership (NURS 300): Teamwork Barriers and Solutions Report

This report delves into the critical aspects of teamwork within the healthcare sector, specifically focusing on nursing leadership. It begins by highlighting the importance of teamwork and communication in providing quality patient care. The report then identifies key barriers to effective teamwork, including a lack of leadership qualities, communication problems between staff, and conflicts among team members. It further explores potential solutions to these barriers, such as fostering strong leadership, improving communication strategies, and implementing conflict resolution techniques. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of effective team management and the role of a leader in training and supporting team members to overcome challenges and provide the best possible care. The report references relevant literature to support its findings.

Running head: NURSING LEADERSHIP 1
IDENTIFIES AND EXPLAINS BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE
TEAM PERFORMANCE

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Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................3
Identification of the barriers of teamwork in the healthcare sector:................................................3
The solution of those barriers in the healthcare sector:...................................................................4
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................5
References:......................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction:
Teamwork is always very much effective and influential for a successful organization
whether that organization belongs to the healthcare sector or any other sector. In the case of the
health care sector, communication and teamwork are the major factors which can become helpful
for providing quality services. Teamwork is very helpful in many aspects. With the help of
teamwork, a difficult and hard situation can be handled very easily. Teamwork is very helpful for
solving difficult problems. Teamwork can create new ideas and people can exchange their
thoughts and ideas as well. In the case of the health care sector, the motive here is to take good
care of the patients who are admitted here. Doctors, nurses, other medical staffs and also the
patients all of them are considered as a team in this sector. In a health care sector patients must
be treated as a family member of the staffs of a health care unit. Only this way a patient can get
qulity treatment and services from the employees side.
Identification of the barriers of teamwork in the healthcare sector:
The health care sector is a type of sector where teamwork is much needed. But there is
some kind of barriers is present which resists the employees to give their 100 per cent. Those
barriers are as follows:
 Lack of leadership quality is one of the biggest problems in the case of the
health care industry. The health care industry is a sector where people worked with a
valuable life every time. In such cases, professionalism is the most important thing
(Gopee & Galloway, 2017).

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 The communication problem between the staffs and nurses are another
main issue in case of this health care sector.
 The conflict between team members become a major issue for the health
care industry, mostly this type of situation arouse in emergency cases.
The solution of those barriers in the healthcare sector:
In today’s world if an industry wants to survive in a competitive market they need to
overcome all of those barriers of problems which they are generally facing.
 A person cannot be born as a leader. Practice, training and experience
make them best in their field as well.
 Supervisors or leader nurse must be very kind, emphatic and responsible
as well. A responsible nurse can understand only that keeping good term with their
subordinates always keep healthy and cheerful work environment (Reiss-Brennan et al.,
2016).
 To solve the conflict a leader need to be very patient and intelligent as
well. Because inside a team every person are not same. Disagreement is quiet natural in
such cases. Leader needs to be very generous and patient to solve this kind of situation
and make them agreed in one single point. In an emergency case all of the people who
worked as a team must be agreed in a one single point cause at that time one’s life would
be depend on one single and correct decision.

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Conclusion:
Team management is a huge responsibility for a leader. A team is made up of more than
one employee and every employee is different from one another. In that case, the leader needs to
be that much experienced and calm to handle and all of their teammates with zero conflict and
disagreement. If I consider myself as a team leader or a leader nurse I will try to give proper
training to my trainee nurses. I would like to give them all of those experiences which a nurse
can face as an issue throughout her career. Only this way I can made them best in their field.
References:
Gopee, N., & Galloway, J. (2017). Leadership and management in healthcare. Sage.
Reiss-Brennan, B., Brunisholz, K. D., Dredge, C., Briot, P., Grazier, K., Wilcox, A., ... & James,
B. (2016). Association of integrated team-based care with health care quality, utilization,
and cost. Jama, 316(8), 826-834.