8 Team and Teamwork (Team Dynamics and Interprofessional Practice Models)
8 Team and Teamwork (Team Dynamics and Interprofessional Practice Models)
LEARNING GUIDE: TEAMS AND TEAMWORK (TEAM DYNAMICS AND INTERPROFESSIONAL PRACTICE MODELS)
OVERVIEW
This lesson on teams and teamwork examines best practices of team dynamics and interprofessional practice models. In other words, what makes a high-performing team? There is an examination of the importance of flexibility/adaptability and its impact on team functioning. Meanwhile, the topic of team intelligence, which is like emotional intelligence, but on a group level is introduced. Lastly the interprofessional practice models of S.C.O.R.E. and those from Wamsley are offered.
OBJECTIVES
For this lesson you will:
- Identify important components of team dynamics.
- Identify barriers to effective teamwork in healthcare.
- Observe and describe experiences that are team intelligence.
- Identify important behaviors and characteristics of high-performing teams.
- Describe the importance of flexibility/adaptability on team functioning.
COMPETENCIES
| IPEC Sub-Competencies – Teams and Teamwork | |
| TT5 | Apply leadership practices that support collaboration practice and team effectiveness. |
| TT6 | Engage self and others to constructively manage disagreements about values, roles, goals, and actions that arise among health and other professionals with patients, families, and community members. |
| TT7 | Share accountability with other professions, patients, and communities for outcomes relevant to prevention and healthcare. |
| TT8 | Reflect on individual and team performance for individual, as well as team performance improvement. |
| TT9 | Use process improvement to increase effectiveness of interprofessional teamwork and team-based services, programs, and policies. |
| TT10 | Use available evidence to inform effective teamwork and team-based practices. |
DEFINITIONS
Adaptability – “enables a team to respond to changes in the environment and change in the plan for patient management” (Weller, Boyd, & Cumin, 2014, p.149)
Team intelligence – “The mastery of cognition (thinking) governing the coordination of elements of a task. It involves being aware not only of what skills and material people have mastered but also of what they don’t understand but need to. It means making sure that people speak the same language, share the same goals, have clear expectations, are not subverted by unclear assumptions, and help one another maintain situational awareness. Being aware of the barriers that might prevent people from sharing important information and insights is also central to team intelligence.” (Gordon, 2012, p. 219)
Teamwork – “An essential component of patient-centered primary care practice is interprofessional teamwork. High functioning teams require collaboration between physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, clinical psychologists, case managers, medical assistants, and clinical administrators” (Department of Veterans Affairs, 2010, p.2).
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
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