Healthcare Team

• Team


  A distinguishable set of two or more people who interact dynamically, interdependently and adaptively towards a common and valued goal/objective, who have been assigned specific roles or functions to perform
• Team-based approach


  • It is believed that this approach is better at accomplishing shared goals within and across settings to achieve coordinated, high-quality care
• Benefits of teamwork


  • Reduced medical errors
  • Level of patient safety rises
  • Diminished work culture issues that lead to professional burnout
  • Higher level of work satisfaction
• Together Everyone Achieves More
• Components of successful teamwork

  • Open communication
  • Clear and known roles and tasks for team members
  • Respectful atmosphere
  • Shared responsibility for team success
  • Trust among members
  • Best use of skill mix within the team
• Values of an effective team members

  • Honesty
  • Discipline
  • Creativity
  • Humility
  • Curiosity
• Registered Nurses must maintain their professional role/identity while working with other members of the health team
• Registered Nurses must conform with group activities as those of a health team should be based on acceptable, ethico-legal standards
• Registered Nurses must contribute to the professional growth and development of other members of the health team
• Registered Nurses must actively participate in professional and development of other members of the health team
• Registered Nurses must not act in any manner prejudicial to other professions
• Registered Nurses must honor and safeguard the reputation and dignity of the members of nursing and other professions; refrain from making unfair and unwarranted comments or criticisms on their competence, conduct, and procedures; or not do anything that will bring discredit to a colleague and to any member of other professions
• Registered Nurses must respect the rights of their co-workers
• Health is a fundamental right of every individual. The Filipino registered nurse, believing in the worth and dignity of each human being, recognizes the primary responsibility to preserve health at all cost
• Registered nurses have to gain knowledge and understanding of man's cultural, social, spiritual, physiological, psychological, and ecological aspects of illness, utilizing the therapeutic process
• Cultural diversity and political and socio-economic status are inherent factors to effective nursing care
• The desire for the respect and confidence of clientele, colleagues, co-workers, and the members of the community provides the incentive to attain and maintain the highest possible degree of ethical conduct
• Aspects of nursing care

  • Independent
  • Dependent
  • Interdependent
• Independent


  The aspects of nursing care which are identified in the nursing law that does not require directives from others
• Dependent


  Intervention performed based on instructions or written directives given by other members of the health team
• Collaborative


  Involves the physician who makes the order and other members of the health team such as psychologists, pharmacists, nutritionists, radiologists, anesthesiologist, physical therapists, medical technologists, etc.
• Independent


  • Teaching the client deep breathing and coughing exercises
• Dependent


  • Administer antipyretic medication as ordered by the physician
  • Administer 4 liters of oxygen as ordered
• Collaborative


  • Refer the client to a physical therapist for ambulation after a stroke
  • Administer of total parenteral nutrition