Team Work

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Team Work

• Working effectively as a team.

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Learning Objectives

• Define
• Team Work
• Collaborative practice.
• Roles of the multidisciplinary team
• Effective team practice
• Conflict resolution

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Defining Team Work

• Health Practitioners from various streams working
  together
• Each team member has expertise
• Equality
• Respect
• Primary Clinical Care Manual.

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Team Practice

• Health Practitioners working collaboratively
• Each an expert in a specific area
• Equality in decision-making and accountability
• Defined roles based on skills, knowledge and law
• Primary Clinical Care Manual.

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Roles and Responsibilities

• Depend on
• Position description
• Gender
• Skills, knowledge, expertise and experience
• Relationship with the community
• Bush Book volume 1.

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Multidisciplinary Teams

• More similarities than differences in the
  practice
• The scope of practice is generally advanced.
• Challenges are common

Dade Smith 2007
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Extra Skills of the Individual

• Knowledge of health service Resourcefulness
• Ability to work in isolation
• Ability to work in a team
• After hours availability
• Ability to access information
• Survival skills

Dade Smith 2007
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Team work skills required

• Open communication
• Mutual respect
• Understanding of each others role and function
• Acknowledging and utilising the expertise of
  other team members

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Individual Skills required

• Advanced clinical skills
• Ability to deal with emergencies
• Understanding Public Health
• Working within a Primary Health Care framework
• Work with multicultural groups.
• Cross cultural communication

Janie Dade Smith 2007
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Survival Skills

• Confidentiality.
• Understanding, acknowledging and accepting
  community expectations.
• Maintaining professional and personal boundaries.

Dade Smith 2007
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Skills in Rural and Remote Areas.

• Understand
• legal, ethical and scope of practice issues
• and accept professional limitations
• Ability
• to access and utilise professional development
  opportunities
• conduct local research

Dade Smith 2007
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Roles Responsibilities

• Communicate
• Utilise resources effectively
• Monitor and evaluate
• Participate in change management
• Support and mentoring

Chronic Disease Guidelines 2007
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Service Delivery

• Health teams members work collaboratively
• Mutually respectful framework
• Practitioners need to be aware of and practice
  within their scope
• Roles of other team members need to be clear.

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Conflict resolution

• Essential for a functioning team
• Team and team leader need to be able to resolve
  conflict professionally
• Skills required for effective conflict resolution
  will be discussed in session 4 of this unit.

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Learning Activity
Please complete the learning activity 1