Preparing for practice: how well are practitioners prepared for teamwork

Caldwell, Kay; Atwal, Anita; Copp, Gina; Brett-Richards, Madeline; Coleman, Kate

doi:10.12968/bjon.2006.15.22.22565

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“…Most of the literature discussed nurses not knowing their role, but nothing was found for PTs or OTs. Caldwell, Atwal, Copp, Brett-Richards and Coleman (2006) studied the training of practitioners in teamwork and their confidence to be a team member. They questioned nurses, social workers, OTs and PTs within their first 2 years of work.…”

Section: Understanding One's Own Rolementioning

confidence: 99%

A Pilot for Understanding Interdisciplinary Teams in Rehabilitation Practice

White

Gutierrez

McLaughlin

et al. 2013

Rehabilitation Nursing

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Interdisciplinary teams in rehabilitation are effective for positive patient outcomes. They require skills in team building and interprofessional collaboration. The Institute of Medicine has interdisciplinary teams as one of the five core competencies for healthcare workers. In reviewing the literature on teams, several themes were developed, such as communication, collaboration, understanding of roles, and educational levels of team members. Using these themes, a survey was developed to assess perceptions of teams by rehabilitation nurses, physical therapists, and occupational therapists. Significant findings came from questions on educational levels of team members between nurses and occupational therapists and also within the nursing groups. Open-ended questions asked about barriers and facilitators for effective teams. We hope that these pilot results will lead to discussions on how to improve interdisciplinary teams and make them more effective for better patient outcomes.

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Section: Understanding One's Own Rolementioning

confidence: 99%

A Pilot for Understanding Interdisciplinary Teams in Rehabilitation Practice

White

Gutierrez

McLaughlin

et al. 2013

Rehabilitation Nursing

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“…This kind of pseudo-democracy can therefore lead to various manifestations of the democratic fallacy. When larger numbers of opinions are potentially available, such as in a ward round or case conference context, the potential for confusion between majority opinions and correct conclusions becomes greater [3]. …”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The democratic fallacy in matters of clinical opinion: implications for analysing cause-of-death data

Byass

2011

Emerg Themes Epidemiol

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Arriving at a consensus between multiple clinical opinions concerning a particular case is a complex issue - and may give rise to manifestations of the democratic fallacy, whereby a majority opinion is misconstrued to represent some kind of "truth" and minority opinions are somehow "wrong". Procedures for handling multiple clinical opinions in epidemiological research are not well established, and care is needed to avoid logical errors. How to handle physicians' opinions on cause of death is one important domain of concern in this respect. Whether multiple opinions are a legal requirement, for example ahead of cremating a body, or used for supposedly greater rigour, for example in verbal autopsy interpretation, it is important to have a clear understanding of what unanimity or disagreement in findings might imply, and of how to aggregate case data accordingly.In many settings where multiple physicians have interpreted verbal autopsy material, an over-riding goal of arriving at a single cause of death per case has been applied. In many instances this desire to constrain findings to a single cause per case has led to methodologically awkward devices such as "TB/AIDS" as a single cause. This has also usually meant that no sense of disagreements or uncertainties at the case level is taken forward into aggregated data analyses, and in many cases an "indeterminate" cause may be recorded which actually reflects a lack of agreement rather than a lack of data on possible cause(s).In preparing verbal autopsy material for epidemiological analyses and public health interpretations, the possibility of multiple causes of death per case, and some sense of any disagreement or uncertainty encountered in interpretation at the case level, need to be captured and incorporated into overall findings, if evidence is not to be lost along the way. Similar considerations may apply in other epidemiological domains.

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“…Teamwork, however, is a complex issue, that is often taken for granted. For example, Caldwell et al 12 surveyed health practitioners about how well they had been prepared for teamwork. Equality of status within the team was regarded as a significant problem and to a lesser extent, cooperation and conflict resolution, within the team.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%