Have you ever wondered how your service at the emergency room department improved from being a place that takes what seems like forever to get results to a place that just takes three hours to complete the visit? Let me tell you that it all comes down to the fact that they established a team to implement new policies to improve the service. The team is considered a multidisciplinary team, since it was a team that include multiple positions of the hospital staff that came together despite the inner conflicts of what the change policy brought about amongst the members (Mental Health Commission, 2006, Chapter 3). There are many conflicts that can arise from creating a team to change policy, so that there is an improvement in services. Predominately the conflicts that do arise that …show more content…
The average team ranges in size from 5 to 13 members that includes one member of each affected department, thus allowing for a complete and thorough brainstorming session for a solution to the difficulty (Sollecito & Johnson, 2013). One cannot have a full perspective of the difficulty unless all afflicted parties are represented. In order to gather up the correct personnel for the team, then one must clearly define the difficulty. For instance, just recently there was a study done that showed an alarming rate of medical errors are occurring in the operating room to the point that half of the surgeries have a medical error resulting in at least adverse event. The hospital is now currently gathering personnel from the nursing department, anesthesiology, and surgeons to come up with a solution to reduce the errors that are occurring, thus they have the correct departments that are affected by a new policy change. Once this is achieved, then the managing of conflicting personalities must be