Teamwork In Nursing

uphold the professional standard of nurses. Therefore, teamwork is one of the criteria in the continuous professional development strategy of a nurse as well as other health care professionals.

Example of collaborative work

Nurses among others carry the most number of health care staff in an healthcare organizations. Due to the needs of the community, more health care organizations are being built. Without collaboration from nurses, hospital aids, nursing assistants, community nurses and nurse managers, a poor quality standard of care might be delivered as there is no continuity of care and no one to lead and carry out the daily task. Within a ward, handover within ward nurses to the oncoming shift is another example of collaborative care

Therefore, with handovers, the nurses will be able to assess, plan and delegate tasks allocated effectively (Johnson et al, 2012) and thus, task can be completed within the shifts. Nevertheless, the handovers in the current practice has not been improved, according to the research done by Poot et al (2014), usually interrupted by phone calls and lack of active inquiries and confirmation regarding patients’ conditions by the oncoming shift nurses, which might impair the health outcomes of the patients if the message delivered is inappropriate. Therefore, it is the duty of the healthcare managers to audit the handover so that delivery of care is of standards and any changes to the practice can be issued out (Mayor et al, 2012). Besides, the managers should participate in patients’ care and be part of the team to supervise the overall teamwork and become a role model to the nurses (Tschannen et al, 2013). Only that nurses at

Among all the healthcare professionals, nurses play the greatest role in the participation of the care of patients as nurses spend the most time with patients and able to incorporate various processes of care provided by the different expertise (Ballangrud et al, 2013). As can be seen in the government settings in Malaysia and in line with other countries, whereby patients are scattered and numerous, a team comprises of all health care professions involved will have ward rounds to discuss patients’ condition in the present of patients themselves as well as their family members (Burns, 2011). Besides, this integrated care also functions as health promotion to patients, besides determining potential threat linking to patients’ illness to ensure safety care, as proven by a systematic review done by Weaver et al (2013). As this type of care involve the multidisciplinary professions, a patient-centered