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The readings for this module include chapters from Successful Nurse Communication: Safe Care, Healthy Workplaces, & Rewarding Careers.
Before navigating to the ebook, download the reading resources by selecting the arrow next to the resource link. When you are ready to begin your readings, select “Next” to go to the next page to launch the ebook in a new window. Select “View” to see all of the chapters. Locate your assigned reading and select “View eBook” to navigate to the chapter.
When you have completed your readings, close the window and select “Next” to go to the next activity.
Overview
Listening is a key component of the communication cycle. Throughout this module, you will learn to effectively listen, collaborate as a team member, and promote client safety.
Focus Questions:
- Are you an active listener, or do you listen to respond?
- What is your role in the team?
- How does your communication style impact the team dynamic?
Reading Resources
- Chapter 3: Respectful and Effective Listening
- Chapter 3: Respectful and Effective Listening PowerPoint presentation download Chapter 3: Respectful and Effective Listening PowerPoint presentation
- Chapter 10: Collaboration and Team Development
- Chapter 10: Collaboration and Team Development PowerPoint presentation download Chapter 10: Collaboration and Team Development PowerPoint presentation
Citation
Boynton, B. (2016). Successful nurse communication: Safe care, healthy workplaces, & rewarding careers. F. A. Davis Company.
CHAPTER 10
COLLABORATION AND
TEAM DEVELOPMENT
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COLLABORATION AND TEAM DEVELOPMENT
Effective teamwork in healthcare is an essential component of a healthy organizational culture.
Patients receive the best care at the hands of a team of professionals and paraprofessionals who offer different strengths and areas of expertise.
Team development is unique and challenging in healthcare settings.
Hierarchy poses a challenge to the collaboration and communication necessary for optimal teamwork.
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HEALTHCARE TEAMS
In healthcare, there are many teams working to provide patient care.
Teams are characterized to a great extent by their goals, norms, membership roles, expertise, and explicit and implicit rules.
The various experts on a healthcare team must follow their own scope of practice, licensing requirements, and individual job descriptions.
Hierarchal order infuses power gradients into relationships and provides a structure to activities.
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HEALTHCARE TEAMS (cont’d)
Complications in Developing Teams
Members come from different educational paths and have varied knowledge bases and degrees of experience.
Members are responsible for a range of specialized and often urgent tasks.
Organizational tensions (e.g., budgetary concerns) and various agendas (e.g., filling beds) pull professionals in different directions.
There may be clinical differences of opinion, such as when to provide comfort measures versus aggressive treatment.
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HEALTHCARE TEAMS (cont’d)
Components of a Healthcare Team
Membership varies with staffing patterns, including shift work, weekends, and on-call assignments.
Teams are typically made up of 6 to 24 people, but there can be more or less.
Some teams are transient, such as first responders, while others have a more permanent existence, such as the nurse management team of a hospital.
Teams are also influenced by factors including diversity, fatigue, emotional intelligence, training, experience, and the quality of relationships.
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STAGES OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT
Gaining awareness about the five stages of small group or team development is critical, as difficult dynamics can result when team development is ignored.
These stages can occur over any length of time.
Forming is the first stage, and occurs when the team initially comes together.
Team members want to learn more about the goals, expectations, opportunities, and challenges
Team leaders should give clear goals and expectations, facilitate introductions among membership, and be accessible and visible in their roles roles
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STAGES OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT (cont’d)
Storming is the second stage, and is when the team starts to look more deeply at the objectives.
Members begin to challenge each others’ perspectives and possibly those of leadership
Team leaders should remain visible and accessible
Norming is the third stage, during which members begin to identify as part of the team.
Members have agreed to take on the challenges and goals before them, which prevails over bickering or competing for attention
Team leaders should take on a more collaborative demeanor
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STAGES OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT (cont’d)
Performing is the fourth stage, a creative and productive stage during which ideas flow freely.
Co-creative collaboration leads to new ways of thinking
Team leaders should encourage experimentation with ideas
Adjourning is the fifth and final stage, focusing on completion and closure.
Relief may set in now that the demanding work is over, as well as celebratory feelings over the team’s accomplishments
Leaders can help by making room to honor successes and say good-bye
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CHALLENGES IN TEAM DEVELOPMENT
Following the stages of team development in the real world of nursing is difficult due to endless emergent tasks to attend to and constant change.
Concerns about thorough team development are easily overlooked and seen as relatively unimportant when nurses are faced with urgent clinical priorities.
Teambuilding work is time-consuming and the skills hard to practice, yet key for healthy progression through team developmental stages, optimal collaboration, and patient safety.
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TEAMBUILDING STRATEGIES
Simple teambuilding may include informal gatherings as well as more in-depth consulting work involving assessment, recommendations, and interventions.
More extensive teambuilding activities might include meetings with senior leadership and managers, facilitated group feedback sessions, focused retreats, and customized training.
Formal teambuilding strategies have been introduced with the growing awareness of the need to collaborate effectively in order to provide safe, quality service with high reliability.
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TEAMBUILDING STRATEGIES (cont’d)
Crew Resource Management (CRM)
Originally developed in the aviation industry, focuses on ensuring safety in high-risk industries as well as group dynamics, leadership, interpersonal communication, and teamwork
Four principles—communication, workload management, teamwork, and technical proficiency—support the behavioral approach to communication
Promotes psychological safety through the concept that all staff must feel safe to voice concerns about workload management and resources
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TEAMBUILDING STRATEGIES (cont’d)
Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS)
Developed as an extension of CRM specifically for the healthcare industry
A standardized curriculum with a national implementation program in the United States that includes six regional training centers across the country
Four core competencies—leadership, situational monitoring, mutual support, and communication—are taught in a three-phased process
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HIERARCHY AND TEAMWORK
Historical hierarchy underlies all teamwork in a healthcare organization.
Traditional hierarchy in healthcare is based on the old mentality that men have more power and responsibility in decision-making and generally hold higher status than women.
Although gender roles are changing, today there exists a “command-and-control” hierarchy, in which those on the higher rungs of the ladder exert authority over those on lower rungs and with communication flowing from top to bottom.
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HIERARCHY AND TEAMWORK (cont’d)
Creating a Healthy Hierarchy
All healthcare workers must now learn how to become more collaborative leaders and followers as well as how to encourage patients to become more empowered.
There needs to be more sharing of authority, responsibility, and decision-making based on expertise, education, and knowledge.
Command-and- control can still be exercised to achieve the best patient care but will be challenged when appropriate by any team member.
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SPOTLIGHT ON CHAPTER FEATURES
Consultant Commentary
The core principles and activities associated with improvisation can contribute to the development of emotional intelligence, critical thinking, and positive interpersonal relationships necessary for successful teamwork.
Confident Voices
Team Intelligence and the Pursuit of Genuine Teamwork by Suzanne Gordon: The concept of team intelligence can help build the kind of intra- and inter-professional education and practice that makes the delivery of healthcare safer.
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