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Join this course to understand team dynamics in healthcare, defining roles, effective collaboration, and conflict resolution. Learn the importance of working collaboratively with diverse health practitioners and developing essential team skills. Enhance your knowledge of multidisciplinary teams, individual and team responsibilities, and service delivery in a healthcare setting. Explore strategies for effective communication, respect, and utilizing each member's expertise. This course also covers survival skills, rural and remote area practices, and the significance of confidentiality and professional boundaries. Participate in this learning activity to strengthen your teamwork abilities and contribute to a successful healthcare team.
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Team Work Working effectively as a team.
Learning Objectives • Define • Team Work • Collaborative practice. • Roles of the multidisciplinary team • Effective team practice • Conflict resolution
Defining Team Work • Health Practitioners from various streams working together • Each team member has expertise • Equality • Respect Primary Clinical Care Manual.
Team Practice • Health Practitioners working collaboratively • Each an expert in a specific area • Equality in decision-making and accountability • Defined roles based on skills, knowledge and law Primary Clinical Care Manual.
Roles and Responsibilities Depend on • Position description • Gender • Skills, knowledge, expertise and experience • Relationship with the community Bush Book volume 1.
Multidisciplinary Teams • More similarities than differences in the practice • The scope of practice is generally advanced. • Challenges are common Dade Smith 2007
Extra Skills of the Individual • Knowledge of health service Resourcefulness • Ability to work in isolation • Ability to work in a team • After hours availability • Ability to access information • Survival skills Dade Smith 2007
Team work skills required • Open communication • Mutual respect • Understanding of each other’s role and function • Acknowledging and utilising the expertise of other team members
Individual Skills required • Advanced clinical skills • Ability to deal with emergencies • Understanding Public Health • Working within a Primary Health Care framework • Work with multicultural groups. • Cross cultural communication Janie Dade Smith 2007
Survival Skills • Confidentiality. • Understanding, acknowledging and accepting community expectations. • Maintaining professional and personal boundaries. Dade Smith 2007
Skills in Rural and Remote Areas. • Understand • legal, ethical and scope of practice issues • and accept professional limitations • Ability • to access and utilise professional development opportunities • conduct local research Dade Smith 2007
Roles & Responsibilities • Communicate • Utilise resources effectively • Monitor and evaluate • Participate in change management • Support and mentoring Chronic Disease Guidelines 2007
Service Delivery • Health teams members work collaboratively • Mutually respectful framework • Practitioners need to be aware of and practice within their scope • Roles of other team members need to be clear.
Conflict resolution • Essential for a functioning team • Team and team leader need to be able to resolve conflict professionally • Skills required for effective conflict resolution will be discussed in session 4 of this unit.
Learning Activity Please complete the learning activity 1
