Teamwork, Leadership and Communication
Collaboration Basics for Health Professionals
- Publisher
- Brush Education
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2015
- Subjects
- Education & Training, Health Care Delivery
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- 9781550596434
- Publish Date
- Aug 2015
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Description
This practical, straightforward guide presents the basic skills, attitudes, and knowledge needed for successful interprofessional collaboration in healthcare. Collaboration is fundamental to quality healthcare, and many regulatory bodies and accrediting agencies now have standards and benchmarks for interprofessional collaboration. This guide brings together in one volume basic collaboration competencies for healthcare professionals.
Teamwork, Leadership and Communication serves both as an introduction for novices and as a refresher for experienced practitioners. It provides exceptional learning support for classes, working groups, and self-study. Topics include:
- Group dynamics
- Team structures
- Decision making
- Shared leadership
- Conflict management
- Communication in small groups
- Stereotyping
- Liability
About the authors
Dr. Deborah Lake is a clinical psychologist with 35 years of experience in collaborative settings in pediatrics, mental health, public health and school systems. She is currently an assistant professor in the Clinical Health Psychology Department at the University of Manitoba and works part-time with Child and Adolescent Psychology at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg.
Krista Baerg is a consultant pediatrician and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Saskatchewan. Her clinical interests include interdisciplinary practice, patient- and family-centered care, pain management, and quality improvement. She completed her BScMed and MD as well as her specialty training in pediatrics at the University of Saskatchewan.
Teresa Paslawski is a faculty member in the School of Rehabilitation Science, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Saskatchewan. She is a speech language pathologist with a PhD is in Neuroscience (Psychiatry). Teresa has taught in speech language pathology programs at the University of Alberta and Washington State University and has worked clinically in acute and outpatient rehabilitation and acute care.