Teamwork, Leadership and Communication: Collaboration Basics for Health Professionals

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Brush Education, Aug 10, 2015 - Medical - 128 pages

 This practical, straightforward guide presents the basic skills, attitudes, and knowledge needed for successful interprofessional collaboration in healthcare. Collaboration is fundamental to quality healthcare, and many regulatory bodies and accrediting agencies now have standards and benchmarks for interprofessional collaboration. This guide brings together in one volume basic collaboration competencies for healthcare professionals.

Teamwork, Leadership and Communication serves both as an introduction for novices and as a refresher for experienced practitioners. It provides exceptional learning support for classes, working groups, and self-study. Topics include: Group dynamics, team structures, decision making, shared leadership, conflict management, communication in small groups, stereotyping, liability and more.

 

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Contents

1 Introduction
1
2 Teamwork
11
3 Leadership
27
4 Communication
46
5 Weaving the Fabric of Collaboration
74
Appendix A Attitudes toward Health Care Teams Scale
90
Appendix B Shared Leadership Behavior Checklist
92
Appendix C Active Listening Checklist
93
Appendix D Structured Group Reflection Questions
95
Appendix E Collaboration SelfAssessment Tool CSAT
97
References
99
Index
109
About the Authors
112
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About the author (2015)

Deborah Lake is a retired clinical psychologist with 40 years of experience with other professionals in pediatric outpatient clinics, mental health and public health services, and public school systems. She has held faculty positions at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Manitoba.

Krista Baerg is a consultant pediatrician and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Saskatchewan. Her clinical interests include interdisciplinary practice, patient- and family-centered care, pain management, and quality improvement. Prior to entering medicine, she completed a BSN and worked as a nurse in remote northern communities.

Teresa Paslawski is a faculty member in the School of Rehabilitation Science, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Saskatchewan. She is a speech language pathologist with a PhD is in Neuroscience (Psychiatry). Teresa has taught in speech language pathology programs at the University of Alberta and Washington State University and has worked clinically in acute and outpatient rehabilitation and acute care.

Bibliographic information

TitleTeamwork, Leadership and Communication: Collaboration Basics for Health Professionals
AuthorsDeborah Lake, Krista Baerg, Teresa Paslawski
PublisherBrush Education, 2015
ISBN1550596403, 9781550596403
Length128 pages
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Medical / Education & Training
Medical / Health Care Delivery
  
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