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Five Essential Ingredients for Team Success
Working with other health profession students on a presentation or project? Consider these components when collaborating!
| 1. Role clarity • Each member is relied on to execute his or her unique role. • Individual contributions should be valued, yet the focus must be on team success. |
Examples include diagnosticians, prescribers, medication experts and members who tend to the patient’s daily needs. |
| 2. Trust and confidence • Members must be confident in their own abilities to develop team trust. |
Facilitated by proximity and time, as well as exposure to other health care disciplines. |
| 3. The ability to overcome adversity • Challenges require every member to remain committed to the collective goal despite setbacks. |
Examples of adversity may include dealing with complex patients or staff shortages. |
| 4. The ability to overcome personal differences • Members must be able to overcome personal differences even if they do not always get along. |
Members must work together, putting patient care first. |
| 5. Collective leadership • A philosophy that takes pressure off any one individual and disperses it throughout the group. |
Collaborative leadership is 1 of the 6 competency domains for interprofessional education. |
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Chart modified from: Bosch, B., & Mansell, H. (2015). Interprofessional collaboration in health care: Lessons to be learned from competitive sports. Canadian pharmacists journal : CPJ = Revue des pharmaciens du Canada : RPC, 148(4), 176–179. https://doi.org/10.1177/1715163515588106 |
Read the full article here |