Fostering Creativity in Healthcare Teams
Team versus Individual Creativity Team creativity is different than individual creativity. For example, a team of creative individuals may not be a creative team if individual creativity is stifled by…
Roles, Education, and Values of Healthcare Professionals
Values of Healthcare Professionals Healthcare delivery involves a diverse and amazing tapestry of highly specialized professions. This makes teamwork in healthcare delivery more challenging than in virtually any other sphere…
Effective Healthcare Teams
Clinical Teams The purpose of a clinical team is to deliver excellent health care to its patients, and so an effective clinical team is one that delivers high quality care….
Types of Healthcare Teams
True Teams The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening for colorectal cancer beginning at age 50, using either colonoscopy or one of a few alternative methods. Sam Murphy turned…
Leading Healthcare Teams
What Do Effective Team Leaders Do? One simple but incorrect answer to this question is that effective team leaders make decisions and tell the other team members what to do….
Making Decisions in Healthcare Teams
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…
Evaluating Healthcare Teams and Team Members
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…
Patients and Families in Healthcare Teams
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…
Managing Conflict in Healthcare Teams
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…
Process Improvement in Healthcare Teams
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…
