Question

outlines 21 competencies in four areas that are required of individual team members to achieve effective teamwork. For each of the four areas, identify the competency you feel is most important and provide your rationale (4 paragraphs total). Compose your paper in MS Word. Patient focus Team orientation Collaboration Team management

Answer 1

Patient centered care: It is one of the affective, valuable and meaningful care, which was providing to an individual patients. The IOM (Institute of Medicine) also states it is a responsive and respectful patient preferences care. An effective communication taken placed between the nurse and patient is essential competency for nursing care practice and for patient centered care. The nurse good communication skills can allows building up a better interpersonal relationship among the patients and it prevents and reduces the communication barrier. It can help to identify the patient needs during the care process. Teamwork is essential to provide the highest quality of care for patients. It is important to get known to the team members. So team orientation is initial step before working as a team. This helps in flexibility of work and reduces burden also produce smooth working environment. The competency needed here is to understand the other team member properly and also having good interpersonal relationship. So there will be good cooperation and communication also can easily find the strength and weakness of team members.

Effective collaboration is needed among the health team workers for the easy and smooth working condition. It again comprises of team members and other heath related workers, patient and their family. Here also the important competency is to have good communication and interpersonal relationship between the people. So it helps to convey information easily and can work cooperatively without barriers between. We work in interdisciplinary teams and must cooperate with each other to provide the most effective, safe and efficient care for patients. So its a team work and team management is important task. There will be a manager or leader to guide the team. The important factor needed for management is leadership quality or managing quality but for that again it is important to build good interpersonal relationship between the team members and manager. So communication helps to reduce and solve team conflicts and helps in good quality working condition. All these areas the individual team members can survive through good rapport and relationship with other team members and for that they should have good communication skills and understanding capacity.