TOOLS FOR

FACILITATING
TEAMWORK

Ria Amrel A. Andaluz

Romnick G. Asi
BSN-1B
 What is Teamwork?

• Teamwork requires effective

communication skills and collaborative care
coordination. Team members should be
encouraged to ask questions, share ideas or
concerns, and discuss potential solution.
Each team member’s strengths and skills
must be utilized to achieve an optimal
patient care experience and workplace
satisfaction.
 Who makes up the Healthcare
Team?

• Health care is a team effort. Each

health care provider is like a member of
the team with a special role. Some
members are doctors or technicians
who help diagnose disease and other
experts such as nurses who treat disease
or care for patients’ physical and
emotional needs.
DOCTORS or PHYSICIANS
✓ key member of the health care team. Diagnose and treat conditions
that require a special area of knowledge.
NURSES
✓ work closely with patients.
PHARMACISTS
✓ give patients medicine that are prescribed or recommended by a
doctor
LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIST
✓ help providers diagnose and treat disease by analyzing body fluids
and cells.
 A New Focus on Teamwork

✓ The medical community has come to

understand the collaboration required
among these professionals to improve
patient outcomes. To fulfill this, healthcare
leaders focus on fostering teamwork in the
workplace to reduce medical errors and
improve patient outcomes.
 Team-Oriented Goal Setting

✓ Team members require to produce

outcome. Leaders provide this through
verbalization and written policy. Team
leaders clearly establish objectives and
accountability to ensure organizational
productivity.
 Set The Bar

✓ Measurable goals help organizations reduce

errors, service delivery time and wasted
resourcces, while concurrentely increasing
patient satisfaction.
 Learn Communication Skills

✓ To prevent misunderstandings and errors,

leaders practice and teach effective
communication. Effective communication
reduces occurrences and increase positive
patient outcome.
 Encouraging Respect and Trust

✓ Healthcare members build mutual respect

and trust with each interaction they
experience with clients and other staff
members. Staff members and patients relate
to conversations in which they feel valued
and respected.
 Determining, Identifying, and
Assigning Specific Goals

Individuals from different medical

disciplines serve varying functions on
interdepartmental teams.