Improving Healthcare Team Performance
The 7 Requirements for Excellence in Patient Care
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Improving Healthcare Team Performance
The 7 Requirements for Excellence in Patient Care
About This Book
Practical, proven techniques for improving team performance in the health care world
Teams and collaboration have become an expectation in most healthcare facilities and environments. It is accepted that high performance, patient focused teams are critical to quality patient care. However, there is often a wide gap between traditional practices and the new behaviours and practices required for teamwork and collaboration. Improving Health Care Team Performance goes beyond theory to provide the knowledge, tools, and techniques required to develop a single team, or to develop an organization wide team based culture, from which exceptional patient care emerges.
Most uniquely it emphasizes that effective teamwork goes far beyond team dynamics and provides detailed description of additional requirements, such as shared learning and change compatibility, and how to fulfill them.
A practical handbook for healthcare leaders striving to ensure a superior patient experience and high quality of care, Improving Healthcare Team Performance not only provides specifics on how to develop high functioning teams, whether multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, or departmental but also offers those dealing with the common healthcare leadership challenges of low morale, poor communication, interpersonal conflict, and lack of knowledge sharing the tools to take immediate action to improve performance. Providing a proven approach to addressing and preventing everyday issues impacting patient care, Improving Health Care Team Performance contains everything needed to identify areas of greatest need within a team or department, take targeted action to address key gaps, and measure progress towards positive change.
- Presents a clear depiction of what constitutes collaboration and a high-performing patient focused team. This includes the skills and practices required to improve team performance and ultimately the quality of patient care, how to develop new attitudes and behaviours within the team, as well as the leadership requirements for success in a patient focused, team based culture.
- Provides a set of development tools accessible online to help the reader quickly and easily apply the knowledge gleaned.
- Offers targeted solutions including tips/recommendations, a step-by-step approach for affecting necessary change at every level of the organization, and skills and team development activities.
Designed for leaders working in any healthcare environment, Improving Health Care Team Performance is a practical approach to improving team performance and the quality of patient care.
Frequently asked questions
Information
When a Group Becomes a Team
The Elements of High-Performance, Collaborative Teamwork
- Healthy climate
- Cohesiveness
- Open communication
- Change compatibility
- Team membersâ contribution
- Shared leadership
- Shared learning
Healthy Climate | Healthy Climate refers to how members feel about the way the team functions, including their level of comfort with team norms of behaviour. If the climate is not positive, honesty and openness are lacking and team members may not fully trust and respect one another. |
Cohesiveness | Cohesiveness refers to the degree to which the team pulls together in the same direction. Cohesiveness requires agreement and commitment to what the team is in place to achieve (mandate, goals, and objectives), as well as how it will achieve them (values, priorities, and procedures). |
Open Communication | Poor communication within healthcare organizations is cited as a major contributing factor in patient-safety incidents. The degree of open communication is reflected by a team's ability to communicate clearly, accurately, and respectfully, with the freedom to express opinions and to ask questions. |
Change Compatibility | The team that thrives today must be able to maintain high performance in an environment of accelerated and constant change. Change compatibility requires receptivity and adaptability to change. |
Team Membersâ Contribution | Team membersâ contribution is determined by the degree to which team members individually contribute to the team's success by fulfilling their team responsibilities. Examples include keeping one another informed, sharing the load, and actively participating by looking for opportunities to improve the team's ability to provide quality patient care by sharing ideas and concerns. |
Shared Leadership | Shared leadership requires that each team member is appropriately self directed, involved in the decision making process and is an equal member of the team in that their input is both valued and respected. |
Shared Learning | Learning is at the heart of a culture focused on team performance and patient safety. This element measures the degree to which the team actively reflects on experiences, shares knowledge, and provides feedback in a blame-free, âwhat can we learn from thisâ manner, so that learning becomes part of the team's regular day-to-day practice. |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Dr. Ken Milne
- Introduction
- Part I: The 7 Elements of a High-Performance Healthcare Team
- Part II: Making It Happen: Achieving Improved Team Performance
- Part III: The Tools to Make It Happen
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- About the Authors
- Index