1.05 Effective Healthcare Teams

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1.05 Effective Healthcare Teams
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Healthcare Teams

• Individuals from different healthcare disciplines
  come together to provide patient care.
• No single professional can deliver a complete
  plan of care to meet patient needs.
• The leader of the healthcare team may vary
  depending on the task.

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Healthcare Team Members

• Healthcare team member differences
• backgrounds
• education levels
• interests
• skills
• careers
• All team members work together to provide quality
  patient care.

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Roles and Responsibilities of Healthcare Team
Members

• Assessment
• Treatment / management
• Education / advocacy
• Referrals / collaboration

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Roles and Responsibilities of Healthcare Team
Members

• Assessment
• Evaluation of the patients condition

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Roles and Responsibilities of Healthcare Team
Members

• Treatment / management
• Treatment
• therapy
• remediation of a health problem
• Management
• develop a plan
• define goals of therapy
• educate and counsel the patient

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Roles and Responsibilities of Healthcare Team
Members

• Education / advocacy
• Education
• Provide information or training to the patient
  and family members to effect the mind, skills and
  values
• Advocacy
• Support for the patient

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Roles and Responsibilities of Healthcare Team
Members

• Referrals / collaboration
• Referrals
• Direct patient to another healthcare provider
• Collaboration
• Healthcare team members working together to
  achieve a goal

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Characteristics of Effective Healthcare Teams

• Set clear patient goals with measureable outcomes
• Composed of clinical and administrative systems

• Relies on multi-discipline expertise
• Provides training for all team members
• Practices effective communication

105 Understand concepts of teamwork
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Impact ofEffective Healthcare Teams

• Benefits to Patients
• Improved patient care and outcomes
• Better patient access to healthcare
• Satisfaction among patients

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Impact ofEffective Healthcare Teams

• Benefits to Healthcare Agencies
• Improved recruitment and retention of healthcare
  providers
• Satisfaction among healthcare providers
• Better communications among healthcare providers
• Efficient and effective use of resources

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Go Team !(The End!)