Team Collaboration in Healthcare
1. What kinds of health care professionals work at your selected facility? How do their professional roles and scope of practice differ or overlap?
2. What kind of professional teams might your health care facility require? What might these teams be tasked with accomplishing, and which professionals would theoretically participate?
3. Describe the group dynamics of an inter-professional team at your selected health care facility and explain how such a team might problem-solve and manage conflict.
4. Using at least two examples, explain how strong team communication, productive group dynamics, and effective collaboration positively contribute to quality patient care and better patient outcomes.
5. How can your selected health care facility better encourage teamwork among its health care professionals?