Building Healthcare Teams
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…
Sponsoring Healthcare Teams
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…
Senior Leaders and Teamwork in Their Organizations
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…
Training Healthcare Teams and Team Leaders
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…
Competencies for Healthcare Team Members
Healthcare Team Members As indicated in Chapter 1, teamwork competencies are the combinations of values, knowledge, and skills that team members need in order to work effectively in teams. In…
Work Teams and Teamwork Competencies
Teamwork Competencies Section I of this book (Chapters 1–5) describes the concept of a work team, differentiates different types of teams in health care, introduces the professionals who comprise healthcare…
Healthcare Administrators in Healthcare Teams
Figure 5–1. Conventional hospital structure (simplified). Nursing staffs in large healthcare delivery settings have a similar, though less pronounced, structure of clinical autonomy, with self-governance mechanisms, nursing union rules, or…
