Improving Healthcare Team Performance
The Seven Requirements for Excellence in Patient Care
Improving Healthcare Team Performance is a practical handbook that provides the knowledge, tools, and techniques required to develop a team-based culture within a healthcare environment that will result in exceptional patient care. Importantly, the book emphasizes that effective teamwork goes far beyond team dynamics and provides strategies for fulfilling each of the 7 requirements that differentiate high performance healthcare teams from the rest.
As healthcare leaders strive to ensure patient safety and a high quality of patient care amid the challenges of shrinking resources, constant change, and the need to ensure consistently high functioning patient focused teams and positive staff morale, this book recognizes those challenges and offers actionable steps to improve performance by:
- Depicting clearly what constitutes a high-performing, patient-focused team
- Offering targeted solutions to key challenges
- Providing team development exercises complete with facilitator's guides and handouts, tips and recommendations, and a step-by-step approach for effecting necessary change at every level of the organization
- Including a set of online development tools to help the reader quickly and easily apply the knowledge gained
Designed for leaders working in any healthcare environment, Improving Healthcare Team Performance not only provides specifics on how to develop high-functioning, patient focused teams, but also offers guidance on common healthcare leadership challenges along with the tools to create needed change.
