Nurse Key

Strong Central Authority John Smith was transported by emergency ambulance to the Emergency Department of County General Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center. He had suffered multiple gunshots to his…

As discussed in Chapter 12 on team sponsors, whole teams generally are evaluated on the basis of: (1) goal achievement, and (2) whether the teams have the characteristics of effective…

Healthcare Teams The previous chapter deals with the healthcare professionals who are found in healthcare teams. Now we turn to the person at the center of each team, namely, the…

A second common source of team conflict relates to disagreements over goals. Such conflict may be due to the absence of a clear vision or clear goals, with individual team…

The Model for Improvement Heartland Medical Group was a primary care practice of 12 family physicians, 7 internists, 8 adult nurse practitioners (NPs), and 1 obstetrician who cared for women…

Teams that anticipate difficulties in advance, based on prior experience with particular team members or complex tasks or goals, can engage in preemptive team building. Other occasions for team building…

COMPETENCIES FOR TEAM SPONSORS The 3 elements of the team sponsor’s role serve well as categories of competencies for team sponsors. In order to design a team well, a sponsor…

Organizational structure is comprised of the policies and practices that define roles (descriptions of activities expected of incumbents in job positions), reporting relationships and work flow in the organization. In…

Perhaps in the future organized training will be available more often for individuals, especially clinicians, who seek training specifically as team leaders. Blumenthal and colleagues (2012) have called for inclusion…