...In healthcare, each patient has an interdisciplinary team. Depending on the care the patient needs, the team may consist of a physician, nurse, dietitian, social worker, respiratory therapist, speech pathologist, nursing assistant. Each team member comes from a different background, and has their own unique knowledge and skills. For this reason each individual is significantly important. In order to provide quality care, it is essential that there is collaboration between the team. In addition having through communication about the patient’s care plan, goals for treatment, or change condition is critical. Without clear communication and collaboration, many negative consequences can occur, including putting the patient’s safety at risk. For my clinical experience I shadowed the Occupation Therapy and Physical Therapy Department. These discipline emphases on rehabilitating patients so they can return home after being discharged from the hospital. They also with work with those in long term care units, to help prevent the individual’s current status from progressing. Occupational Therapists (OTS) evaluate how the patient’s loss of function affects their daily life. Their activities focuses on self-care, leisure and productivity. A few of the activities I observed patients and OT staff performing were counting money, folding clothes, and...
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...Healthcare providers, automatically assume the leadership role when providing care to patients and to office staff. We facilitate mindset and reinforce behaviors that generate sustainable healthy lifestyles, which prevent disease onset, and foster wellness. We encourage, teach and prescribe medication to our patients to promote wellness. Our actions are guided by our personal and professional values These values shape how we carry out our day to day duties. As providers, we need to be open minded and welcome constructive criticisms. We must be sensitive to others people’s values and acknowledge their autonomy. We can provide quality care and leadership skills to patients if we take time to listen. I regard quality as being, honest, empathizing,...
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... Values are important in any organization. Values give an organization credibility in the eyes of its clients. Promotion of ethical values is a role of every stakeholder of the organization. At New South Wales (NSW) Health and private employers ensure promotion of value through adherence to their value statements. This reflection portfolio evaluates the said values assuming that one works within that organization. In order to perform this reflection, one has to make sure that personal values are not compromised by the employer. Compromise may hinder independent comparison of one’s personal values and those of NSW Health. This work will analyze the influence of these values on health teams and demonstrate how NSW Health leaders may use these values to impact effectively on patient’s healthcare. An independent evaluator needs to follow the criteria that ensure professional practice. I adopted my values in a collage characterized by strong family bondage and commitment, sharing, love, happiness and family pets. This collage values happiness, wealth and family bondage than other matters in life. I express my vision for a happy family, values and goals to measure progress. My vision aims to ensure family safety, health and togetherness. In order to have a happy family, one must attend to all their needs including shelter and food. One also has to try and be the best father or mother and thus promote common family values that ensure commitment, guidance, respect and openness...
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...effective teams: a literature review Characteristics of effective teams: a literature review SHARON MICKAN AND SYLVIA RODGER Sharon Mickan is a PhD student and Sylvia Rodger is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Occupational Therapy at The University of Queensland. Sharon holds a NH&MRC Public Health Postgraduate Research Scholarship. Abstract Effective healthcare teams often elude consistent definition because of the complexity of teamwork. Systems theory offers a dynamic view of teamwork, in which input conditions are transformed via optimum throughput processes into maximal output. This article describes eighteen characteristics of effective teams across input conditions and teamwork processes, which have been identified from the literature. Background Research into team effectiveness has traditionally searched for characteristics of effective teams. Quantitative evaluations of specific interventions have largely been inconclusive and emphasised the need for further research (Schwartzmann 1986). The complexity of team functioning precludes reducing teams to their least number of components. Rather, a systems theory approach recognises the relationships and interdependence between and within teams. Given the importance of teamwork to delivering healthcare, a better understanding of how teams function effectively will be invaluable for educating and developing teams. This article will summarise and evaluate characteristics that create and maintain teams in healthcare environments...
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...Improve the Performance of Healthcare Abstract This paper explores eight published articles, and one book that report on results from research conducted on three big ideas that represent great opportunities to improve the performance of healthcare organizations. Three articles explain the helpfulness of virtual teaming, two articles and one book explains the benefits of outsourcing, and the last three articles explain why customer relationship management, also known as CRM, is a helpful resource. This paper will define the management practice or breakthrough idea, discuss the expected impact on improved patient outcomes, higher levels of customer satisfaction, and identify the critical success factors associated with implementing these programs in a health services organization. These management practices or breakthrough ideas, in my judgment, will be ranked the greatest, second greatest, and third greatest potential benefit for healthcare organizations. Healthcare is one of the biggest organizations around. Because of its size, and the many departments within a healthcare cooperation there is much need for organization between management, staff and their patients. There are many ways to make sure that a healthcare system operates smoothly. I agree with Martin Van Buren when he stated that it is easier to do a job right, then to explain why you didn’t. In this paper there will be three ideas that may get the job done right such as, virtual teams, outsourcing, and customer...
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...Describe the Situation Sector Bella Healthcare was founded in 1960 as a manufacturing of Holter monitors. Due to the advent of transistors by early 1960’s, Bella Healthcare had become widely accepted for clinical use. Bella Healthcare India was originally established in Bangalore as a low-cost manufacturing facility for a U.S.-based cardiology equipment developer. The company was launched with The Bella brothers developed version of Holter that was more comfortable for patients and more reliable than competing device. As the year goes by the company expanded its offering to a range of cardiology equipment. Bella Healthcare wanted to establish an Asian Manufacturing location in addition to its facility outside St. Louis, after accessing several location there was a strong recommendation to select Bangalore. Bella had sales office in Europe and Asian Market but this would be the first manufacturing facility outside the US. Bella Healthcare India started operation in 1990s. Bella India is bent on achieving goals and innovation of health facilities. The Bangalore facility products were lower cost but also of high quality. Strategic Aim The establishment of an Asian manufacturing location in addition to Bella’s Facility outside US was succeeded by the Bella healthcare India. The immediate goal was to establish a lean low cost manufacturing facility in India. In 1990 operation at Bella Healthcare India started with the assembly and testing of EKG electrodes and amplifies....
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...Healthcare is a very special endeavor, at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare the staff is privileged to serve the community. As a faith-based organization, the organization is dedicated to providing services to all different types of people. This mission is lived each day through a team of over 10,000 plus associates who serve patients, families and visitors. The services are provided in a manner which supports the health ministries and social principles of “The United Methodist Church”. Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is a faith-based healthcare system that, in partnership with its physicians, will be nationally recognized for delivering outstanding care to each patient, achieved through collaboration with patients and their families. Methodists’ healthcare employees serve their patients with compassionate sprit and treat others with dignity and respect. The staff at the facilities accepts and value differences among people. They listen to understand and meet the needs of patients and families. The staffs of these facilities take personal responsibility for working as part of a team to support patients and families. At MLH their brand is the promise to deliver to the patients, families, Associates, physicians, and community. The Methodist Corporation has rooted in the values of service, quality, integrity, teamwork and innovation, our culture. These values are at the core of everything that is done, from treating patients and partnering with families to hiring new Associates and...
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...Banner Healthcare Network Tequila Richie Grand Canyon University: NRS-451V February 23, 2014 Banner Healthcare Network Banner Healthcare Network (BHN) is one of the leading, nonprofit organizations in the United States that was established in 1999 (Banner Healthcare, 2013) and recognized as one of the top fifth teen health systems in the United States in 2013 for quality outcomes, patient care and efficiency by Truven Health Analytics (Banner Healthcare, 2013). This organization is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona and also operates in six additional Western states such as Alaska, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming. Banner Healthcare consists of twenty-four hospitals that employees 37,000 people nationally and 29,000 in Arizona alone (Banner Healthcare, 2014). Banner Healthcare stands firm and believes in their mission to make a difference in the communities’ lives by providing and focusing on the highest quality care and service. This organization provides high quality care through medical care and emergency services in addition to renowned cutting-edge research. A variety of specialty services such as organ transplant, high-order multiple births, pediatric care, cancer care, behavior health, and rehabilitation are also offered (Banner, 2013). Banner Healthcare Network has a strong allegiance to the community to provide affordable, high quality care. Banner Health is committed to making the right choices in healthcare because it will affect the...
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...unstable. Teamwork is an essential component in achieving high reliability particularly in healthcare organizations. A team consists of two or more individuals, who have specific roles, performs interdependent tasks, are adaptable and share a common goal. To work effectively together, team members must possess specific knowledge, skills and attitudes, such as the skills in monitoring each other’s performance, knowledge of their own and teammate’s task responsibilities and a positive disposition towards working in a team. Teamwork is critical for the delivery of healthcare. Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, technicians and other health professionals must coordinate their activities to deliver safe and efficient patient care. Characteristics of Effective Teams: Team Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes | Characteristics of Effective Teams (Salas, Sims, and Klein 2004) | Team leadership | Have a clear common purpose | | Team member roles are clear but not overly rigid | | Involve the right people in decisions | | Conduct effective meetings | | Establish and revise team goals and plans | | Team members believe the leaders care about them | | Distribute and assign work thoughtfully | Backup behavior | Compensate for each other | | Manage conflict well-team members confront each other effectively | | Regularly provide feedback to each other, both individually and as a team (“debrief”) | | “Deal” with poor performers | | Are self-correcting | Mutual performance...
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...Annotation~ Team Building/Teams McConnell, C (2012) Teams, Team Building, and Teamwork. The Effective Health Care Supervisor p. 386 William, M, Gordon, J (2006). Nurse or Nurse Leader? Leadership Challenges in Building Healthcare Organizations The Business Review, Cambridge 6. 2 (Dec 2006): 296-297. Critical Summary of the editorial Authors Michael William and Jenn Gordan’s article about nurse leadership challenges in building healthcare organizations speak about nursing leadership as more an art than a science. They speak about building a healthcare organization, and how it requires well-honed leadership knowledge, competencies, and skills to develop and enable a successful and sustainable healthcare organization. There are many times in healthcare organizations where the support staff is not concerned or interested in growing the healthcare organization. A leader’s professional dream may be inhibited by the uncommitted support staff that is uninterested or unengaged. The authors speak about the 5 exemplary practices of leader ship as presented by James Kouzes and Barry Posner in their seminal work The Leadership Challenge is about how leaders get extraordinary things done in organizations. The study asks the question; how can nurse managers address and minimize the potentially harmful effects of limited staff interest in the growing healthcare industry? The authors indicate the solution is to...
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...4440 APRIL 27, 2012 DOROTHY LEONARD SUNRU YONG Bella Healthcare India Joseph Cherian, country director of Bella Healthcare in India, wondered whether his team was ready for Project TKO. He listened intently as Jeremy Manning, his director of research and development, described the pros and cons of the project, a proposal to develop a new portable electrocardiograph machine (EKG) specifically for the Indian market. Cherian believed the time was right to tackle the tough, but fast-growing Indian market. The key question was whether Bella India’s local R&D team, under Manning’s direction, was ready to lead the product development: My goal has always been to develop products that serve emerging markets and make healthcare more accessible. I think medical device companies are learning that this can be done most effectively by those who know these markets best. We should develop our affordable EKG in India, for India. Bella India has proven itself in manufacturing and cost- engineering; this is the next logical step. The endeavor was not without risk. The costly failure of Project Baton, a global product development effort, was fresh on everyone’s mind. Failure with Project TKO would not only hurt Bella Healthcare’s overall profitability, it would undermine Cherian’s case that the India operation was ready for more challenging product development undertakings. Industry Background: Electrocardiogram Equipment Electrocardiography, commonly referred...
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...Electronic Medical Records and the Future of Medical Charting JoEllen McMullan Dr. Maria Lauer May 19, 2012 ABSTRACT Electronic Medical Records (EMR) is the transformation of documentation for nurses, physicians, pharmacists and all healthcare professionals involved in a patient’s care. It incorporates all orders, notes, prescriptions, therapies and the like of a particular patient’s progress along their path of treatment and recovery. EMR will transform the medical field in ways healthcare providers could not have imagined a decade ago. While there are positive and negative aspects of EMR, the ultimate result is one of accurate, precise and up to date patient records and communication between all disciplines in real time. INTRODUCTION Electronic Medical Records (EMR) is by far one of the biggest advances in medical charting in recent history. For years, documentation, charting, orders, and virtually any communication between healthcare professionals has been done in the format of “paper charting”. In other words, each professional would document in a patient chart, their particular contribution to that patient’s care on any given day. Not only is paper charting inefficient with regards to time, it also leaves tremendous openings for inaccuracies and errors. ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS I chose to research Electronic Medical Records (EMR) for multiple reasons. I previously held a position in a cardiology office where we transposed...
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...Interprofessional Collaboration By: Faith Syders Healthcare organizations are growing and changing in the recent years. The way healthcare is delivered is changing also. One of the changes that are occurring in healthcare recently is interprofessional collaboration. All of the staff members caring for the patients are starting to use a team approach to the delivery of care. Management is training staff to use interprofessional collaboration model for delivery of care. There are some things to consider when analyzing the interprofessional collaboration model. The teamwork model of interprofessional collaboration has benefits. The staff members, patients, and the overall healthcare organization all benefit from this model. When management is interviewing potential employee’s they are looking for desirable characteristics to add to the teamwork model. Management also uses strategies for working effectively as a team when working with and training team members. At times, there will be ethical considerations that need to be addressed. Also, how will a management team introduce interprofessional collaboration when it is not the current model being utilized currently? The benefits of interprofessional collaboration cross the lines for the staff member, patient and the health care organization. Each group has their own benefits from the teamwork. The pieces of the team bring the benefits together to create a successful teamwork model. Staff members have benefits...
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...belief of inter-professional practice, the roles and responsibilities of healthcare team members and the importance of inter professional communication in health care. Firstly, inter-professional practice has been discussed along with its significance for quality health outcomes. This is followed by the roles and responsibilities of a healthcare team member, which in this essay is a nurse. Lastly, the utilization of inter-professional communication has been described. Inter-professional practice in a healthcare setting refers to the relationship shared by the health professionals to get outcomes in the best interest of their patient as explained by my teacher. To provide a safe, caring and effective patient care the communication between health care members should also be effective and for this it is essential for them to understand communication concepts and techniques like, attending listening and probing (Berman, Kozier & Erb, 2012). The basic reason behind most of the medication errors, adverse reactions and near misses is due to inadequate communication between different health professionals be it oral or written, also the conclusion of many health care quality improvement investigations state that there is a lack of Inter-professional communication and hence suggest to improve it (Berman, Kozier & Erb, 2012). This collaboration between the professionals forms an integral part of the healthcare setting because the whole process of the treatment is based on communication...
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...question for concern. Many healthcare facilities and organizations are working on a plan to integrate diverse professions into one comprehensive medical model home to optimize effective patient-centered care outcomes. The goal is to reduce costs, expand the healthcare teams knowledge base while improving patient outcomes. How can the core competency of teamwork and collaboration impact the healthcare delivery system? How can we treat older adults that are more likely to seek and accept psychological services in primary care verses specialty mental health care settings? What are the challenges healthcare providers are facing that impede collaboration? There are many obstacles to face and barriers to cross before health care providers can work together more efficiently to achieve a higher level of teamwork and collaboration. Teamwork & Collaboration in Health Care Teamwork and collaboration among health care providers allows each profession to function competently within their own scope of practice as part of the interdisciplinary team to collaborate on shared goals, respect different views, communicate measureable processes for a positive effective outcome, and expand our knowledge base while providing patient-centered care. The IOM stated that: “An inter-disciplinary /inter-professional team is composed of members from different professions and occupations with varied and specialized knowledge, skills, and methods. The team members integrate their observations...
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