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University System Ana G. Méndez, Inc. School for Professional Studies Florida Campuses University Of Turabo Luz E. Pagán Workshop 4 Essay Professor Camacho NURS 201 Fundamentals Nursing © University System Ana G. Méndez, Inc. 2014 Rights Reserved Effective Teamwork The interdisciplinary care and collaboration it is a concept that show up in the 70s, but it was resurging in the 80s with mayor strength. This concept recommends the collaboration of professionals in the medical field to meet target for patients. Too meet up those targets, professionals believe in building safer environment to protect patient lives. Those targets were meeting with teamwork. According to Cambridge dictionaries, teamwork is defined as “a combined action of group of people working together effectively to achieve goal” (Cambridge University, 2014) To growing the importance of interdisciplinary teamwork in the health care smarts created four advantages to success. The advantages are dividing by patients, health care professionals, educators and students, and health care delivery system. For this essay study, the important advantages of teamwork are the patients, health care professional and health care delivery system. According to the School of Medicine in the state of North Carolina, “the advantages for patients are; improve care by coordination of services, empower patient as active partners, serve patients with diverse cultures. Advantages of professional of health care are; encourage innovations and practitioners to learn new skills, and allows providers to focus on individuals’ area of expertise”. Professional encourages those targets by recognize characteristics and function of team work. The principles of collaboration, models of interdisciplinary teams in healthcare, and the barriers in coordination of care are involved in effective team work. To promote a safer environment the team members has characteristics and functions. First discern is identifying that work on group is not a team. According to World Health Organization, the characteristics to be a proactive and effective team member are the following: “posses specialized and complete skills, know their role and recognize the members’ roles to accomplish a common goal, formulate decisions, act as a collective unit, but recognize the interdependency task by their own members” (World Health Organization, 2012). Under the characteristic to recognizing their role and the co-workers role, the functions take priorities. In the health field they have an organizational hierarchy with their functions to work in teamwork to achieve patient safety environment. The order fallow as: “A core team is the team leader that works directly with the patient; as nurses. Coordinating teams are the responsibility to coordinate day by day the operational management, coordination functions to the core team. Contingency teams are formed to assist in cases of emergency as; cardiac arrest. Ancillary services are the cleaners and domestic staff that performed direct specific care task and patient support. Support services and administration, are the team they meet indirect task as accountability department” (World Health Organization, 2012). The team members’ organization always works for the beneficence of the patient through the principles of collaboration to achieve common goals. Each organization as institution has a specific benefit to increment the patient care. As an organization the benefit that offers to patient is reducing hospitalization and cost, better institutional structure, and identifies the unconscious admissions. Team members are the compromise to achieve patients’ needs by an excellent good care. Patient benefits do to an organization and the team member is to accept treatment, satisfaction of care, and improve health outcomes. The principles of collaboration are steps that help the team member have a shared, and a common goal to achieve a purpose. The first standard to build relationship is the communication. The communication in the work field, it is important to understand with clarity what our co-workers and patient required. If the communication does not have fluency can cause serious problem of miss understanding a put the patient and co- workers in risk. In according to the American Nurses Association, “ The principles that lead to a excellent communication are; engage in active listening to fully understand and contemplate what is being relayed, know the purpose of the message, safe environment, be sure that the massage giver or receiver is precise, right person gets right information”(American Nurses Association). The second statement that leads to other nurses’ principles is the Authentic Relationships. This authentic relationship has happened between nurse-patient. Nurses during the care process need to develop a relationship by supporting the patient needs. These needs are the physical, mental, and spiritual that is connected to the patient healthiest environment. This authentic affiliation, it is a natural process that occurs when nurse have the compassion to others. The principles under this statement of authenticity are: be true to yourself, your words need to match with your action, empower others to have ideas to share for the benefit of the patient recuperation, be honest a hundred percent, respects others opinion(co-workers and patient) , open mind to other ideas. The third statement is the process of learning a new environment and culture. Nurses need to develop in the work field a culture of safety to protect their own self, patient, and co-workers. Nurses in the learning process of knowledge and mistake decrease anxious. The principles that stated in the learning process are; inspire and creativity, cycle of evaluation, improvement, and celebrating what is going well. All of these principles in the interdisciplinary conductive lead in to a conflict in the teamwork. For identify those conflict co-workers need dealing with the barriers. In the interdisciplinary collaborative work, conflict can happen. As part of the teamwork they need to deal with conflict. The focus needs to be, the beneficence of the patient. According to the interdisciplinary program of the University of Columbia the barriers to deal with conflict are; “inhibition of feedback and confrontation over difference, idealized teamwork, professional tradition of obedience to authority, and misunderstanding of roles, skills, and responsibilities’ of the other team members”( Area Health Education Center, 1999). All of these characteristics, principles, and conflicts in the interdisciplinary care and collaboration have models that were established to understand the environment in the health field to lead into an organizational work. In the interdisciplinary teamwork, we found models to understand the importance to have team work. The University of Columbia identifies three early models. The models help to have a success. In the interdisciplinary care early models identify the provider’s care. They have three early models. “First, The Parallel Model state that non- physician provided care to stable patient. The Sequential Model, the nurse practitioner or physician performs in physical exams and assumes responsibility for diagnosis. The Shared Model indicates who provided patients’ care. In this model the patient care is in provider hands. During years other models are developed as The Collaborative Model indicates concepts of team practice and leadership. This model indicates that team member is needed provide a safety environment, and quality of care to a common goal, that is the health of the patient. Other model is The Interdisciplinary Teamwork System Model. This model shows a collaborative team practice that changes health care problems into an appropriate practical method. The purpose of the interdisciplinary care is to identify the barriers to progress as teamwork. In conclusion, to have a safe environment, team members needs to provide a qualitative patient care and work for a common goal, which is the patient health. Team members need to offer a hundred percent of honesty to show integrity to one another. The interdisciplinary care develops an authentic process to demonstrate knowledge and skills that help build an efficacy in teamwork. References American Nurses Association. (n.d.). ANA/AONE Principles for Collaborative Relationships between Clinical Nurses and Nurse Managers. Retrieved from http://www.aone.org/resources/PDFs/ANA_AONE_Principles_of_Collaborative_Relationships.pdf Area Health Education Center. (1999). MODELS OF TEAM PRACTICE - INTERDISCIPLINARY HEALTH CARE TEAM PRACTICE - DC AHEC. Retrieved from http://dcahec.gwumc.edu/education/session3/models.html Cambridge University. (2014). teamwork - definition in the American English Dictionary - Cambridge Dictionaries Online (US). In Cambridge Free English Dictionary and Thesaurus. Retrieved from http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/american-english/teamwork University of North Carolina School of Medicine. (n.d.). Module 4 Interdisciplinary Teamwork in Health Care. Retrieved from http://www.med.unc.edu/epic/module4/m4to.htm World Health Organization. (2012). Being an effective team player. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/patientsafety/education/curriculum/course4_handout.pdf INTERDISCIPLINARY CARE 6 RUNNING HEAD: INTERDISCIPLINARY CARE 1