Developing And Leading Teams Of A Complex Healthcare System

The features of effective team performance is set up through positive leadership; something which is developed and nurtured. An effective team will work together, be focused and supportive of each other to achieve and reach goals. For a team to be effective, each team member needs to be clear on their roles and responsibilities relating to their job. Team performance will be more effective if there is respect for the leader/manager and an understanding towards their job role and responsibility.

While historically these teams were spearheaded by phyiscians, team leaders are now based on team objectives instead of a member’s professional status (Porter-O Grady, 2013). These changes have resulted in professional nurses commonly assuming inpte-rprofessional team leader roles (Porter-O Grady, 2013). As inter-professional team leaders, nurses must have knowledge of group dynamics, team characteristics, and also have the skills necessary to effectively manage teams (Porter-O Grady, 2013). According to Porter-O Grady, “facilitation, coordination, and intergration of care” are inheret to the nursing profession and are essential effective nursing practice (2013, p.__ ). These attributes are equally important when leading inter-professional teams because nurses serve as great mediators between patients, team members, and the healthcare organization (Porter-O Grady,

Teams working in a hospital or other healthcare setting may consist of several physicians, nurses, medical assistants, referral coordinators, pharmacists, therapists, and students among others. Such large teams can provide comprehensive care for complex and chronic illnesses, but when they fail to work well together, they

The United States health-care system grapples with myriad challenges ranging from stress of an aging population, tremendous inefficiencies and rising costs. These challenges have significantly impacted access to health care services by the citizens.

In order to fully explore the nature of team work in healthcare it is importance to first look at what defines a team.A team can be defined as two or more people with specific roles working together to achieve a common purpose(Kalisch & Begeny, 2005). For

To be a successful leader it is important to be proactive and goal oriented, to be able to distinguish important versus urgent such as patient care and the importance of medication errors within the workplace (Evans & M.L, 2015, p 1-17) It is important to also form a quality relationship and form traits with other leaders and followers to be able to give the best possible patient care, support and direct others to encourage all staff to seek help, to be able support goals or tasks that may need to be achieved (Evans & M.L, 2015, p 1-17). A leadership or management situation that could be changed in the work place is reducing medication errors by increasing the staff to patient ratios while also educating staff and working alongside all health care

There is an ongoing debate regarding the potency of the new health care reform—Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—from the outset of its proposal. Many attempts had been presented in the past years but the root of the issue remains prevalent today, that there is a lack of quality in its delivery and the cost of care is continuously increasing beyond national economic edges. In this manuscript, we will discuss several factors that can positively sway the long-term significance, impact, and structure of the United States health care system. Many are wondering whether the Universal Coverage, to which will give more control and

Those involved in the health care system—nurses, physicians, patients, and others—play increasingly interdependent roles. Leaders who merely give directions and expect them to be followed will not succeed in this environment. What is needed is a style of leadership that involves working with others as full partners in a context of mutual respect and collaboration (A Pearson, H Laschinger, K Porritt, Z Jordan, D Tucker and L Long [International Journal of Evidence-Based health Care], 2007, p. 224).

The healthcare system has seen significant change over the past decade. This is due to improved technology, healthcare reform, and the economic crisis (Hendren, 2010). With the changes that are occurring,

Fixing problems that face health care in many health facilities demand a system wide set of solutions. The systems used in these facilities must be assessed and redesigned to identify factors that will aid in the achievement of the set goals. The enormous task of achieving the goals should be undertaken collaboratively by all the key stakeholders, who include, health care professionals, planners and policy makers, administrators, payers, and patients and their families. These partnerships must begin with a common understanding of the problems together with a shared commitment to cooperate and work together to eliminate the problems. With this knowledge, therefore, an action plan for redesigning the health care system can be developed and later implemented. For a successful health care service to be realized, there are various factors which should be employed and which are not found in the traditional business setting. These include unique economic processes, proper regulatory requirements and the perfect quality indicators. This creates a need for every leader within the healthcare industry to create or develop unique skill sets that will harmonize both organizational leadership and the inter-professional team development. It is, therefore, important to understand the comprehensive approach to the management of patient care and also how the concepts of team development and organizational leadership support healthcare leaders in creation of a patient-centric

A positive force for change centers on the nurse’s strong desire to change current practices. The combination of the turnover rate, low morale, and higher percentage of new nurses, is the driving

Commitment and involvement- the team should be able to understand the goals and should be committed in achieving them

Building and leading a high performing team takes planning. In order to develop a successful team, a good leader must first have a reasonable and concrete expectation of the end goal as well as a solid understanding of the teams components. Once the team is formed, in order for the leader to successfully successfully guide his or her team, an environment of trust must be built, adequate resources must be supplied, timely feedback supplied, and positive reinforcement paired with recognition distributed. These are things that I learned along the way in my experiences as a manager in my various careers. I saw what worked for my managers, and what backfired. I tried to apply those in practice, and made many mistakes along the way. The keys are to determine what defines a high performing team, and to lead rather than direct.

Emotional intelligence is a term I had never heard of before I took my first leadership class. Now that I know what emotional intelligence is and I understand how to use it I hope to apply it to benefit myself and my organizations. I recognize what a huge disadvantage those that do not understand emotional intelligence are faced with. Emotional Intelligence has become a vital part of how today's leaders meet the many various challenges they face on a day to day basis. Emotional Intelligence can help leaders lead their group or organization through the good and the bad times, something that fewer and fewer people seem capable of accomplishing. Lack of emotional intelligence is

Managers rely on four basic functions to accomplish a complete team performance. Those basic functions are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Planning is when the manager sits down with his/her group and collectively they set their goals and decide how as a team they will accomplish these goals. One efficient way to implement the planning function is silent suggestion box type systems when you have each person in the group write down what they believe the goal is and include each goal into a big attainable goal. Organizing is the process of arranging the team tasks, people, and resources to accomplish the work efficiently. Enacting this step is quite easy one must get to know each member of the group including their strengths and weaknesses inside and out of the classroom and allocate tasks based on their strengths in order to boost morale and confidence. When the manager motivates the team members in order to achieve the organization/team goals is the Leading function. Leading is more of a skill you are born with but a way to accomplish this task is through studying great leaders in sports or on business teams for inspirational tips. The final step and probably the most crucial one is Controlling, that is when the manager monitors the group’s performance and individual performance and compares it with the organizations goals and if corrective action is needed then the manager must put the organization