Compvantages Of Teamwork In Health Care In Healthcare

INTRODUCTION

The word ‘team’ can be defined as a group of people working together towards a common goal. A team also generally is known as a group of people with different skills and different tasks, who works together on a common project, services, or goal. Then, the important thing in teamwork is ‘collaboration’, which is the act of working effectively with others to achieve a common goal. Collaboration acts as the lifeblood in the team, even the team is not large enough, but the collaboration is required.

For example, in the health care provider field, the nurses should collaborate with the other health care professional like the doctor, pharmacist, physiotherapy or the radiography in order to achieve the common goal which for the patient’s

The bond between the employees and the manager will improves and become more strength. This can be obtained through the teamwork in the team. For example, the relationship or connection between the nurses, physician, and other health care professional will improves as they work together to achieve the desired goal on the patient.

4) Promote safe and efficient patient care delivery.

The care that provided to the patient is more safe and efficient if it is given through the teamwork. It is better than the care provided by an individual as the ideas of the care only focused on one perspective.

5) Staff improve quality of care and provide positive economic benefits to the hospital

The care that provided is having more quality and improves the patient’s health care. So, the stay of the patient at the hospital become shorter, thus this will reduce the cost of the treatment that the hospital need to pay along the patient being hospitalized.

DISADVANTAGES OF HAVING THE TEAMWORK

1) May take longer to achieve the goal

This may occur as the ideas generating from each of the team members is varies according to their opinion and experience. So, the decision about the method need to be used take the longer time and longer time for the goal to be

The leader of the team either cannot lead the team in the proper way or the members can’t follow the methods used by the leader.

2) Poor communication between the team members

There is no communication action among each the member team regarding to the discussion. Even during the discussion, each of them didn’t want to contribute the ideas or the opinion for what being discussed. They rather to follow the others decision instead based on their own action.

3) Misunderstanding and inadequate procedures for problem-solving

As the team is not having the good communication among the team members, so the misunderstanding can easily occur. One members is expected another thing, but the another team member understand the opposite, so, the desired goal or objective cannot be achieved.

4) Unable to understand the main objectives of the team

Each of the team members is not clearly well-known about the purpose, mission, and the main objectives and the goal. So, each of them couldn’t perform the roles and responsibilities that needed to achieve the desired goal or