Making Health Teams Work

Excerpt from Making Health Teams Work: An Educational Program Health care teams are being used to deliver care in many settings. Research on over forty such teams reveals that many are seen as not functioning as well as potentially possible. Because teams provide the most sensible answer to care delivery in many health care settings, there is a need to increase the operating efficiency of these teams. One possible way to improve team productivity is through structured educational programs. One such program, developed by the authors, is designed to help teams clarify and or establish their (a) goals/objectives, (b) roles/responsibilities, and (c) working procedures (e.g., decision-making). Field tests with this program in twelve team settings have led to reports of improved team coordination, higher morale and cohesivencss, better follow-up and management of patient care, better utilization of health workers resources, an increased sense of effectiveness on the team, and a perceived improvement in patient care. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.