Health Care Teamwork: Interdisciplinary Practice and Teaching - Hardcover
For fifty years, health care teams have been a misunderstood, undervalued, and neglected part of health care. Yet, as Drinka and Clark make clear, well functioning interdisciplinary health care teams (IHCTs) have the potential to help the health care system face its demons―financial constraints and comprehensive error-free care. Because of misunderstandings, administrators, funders, and policy makers keep the potential for interdisciplinary teams hidden. Health care educators teach versions of teamwork that are inadequate and clinicians cling to autonomous modes of practice.
IHCTs have characteristics and problems that are unique to health care settings and the health providers who work in them. Drinka and Clark present a groundbreaking attempt to develop a comprehensive framework for IHCTs. They intend to empower clinicians who work on teams and educators who teach teamwork to impart the basic essentials of effective interdisciplinary teamwork in the health professions. Until now, much of the thinking about IHCTs has been drawn from the research and practice literature from other fields, such as business and group dynamics, which may be of only limited relevance to health care settings. Drinka and Clark present new ways of thinking about team development and maintenance, leadership, conflict, the science and art of practice, communication, and team members as teachers and learners. Anyone who is currently working in health care or is considering a career in health care should read this book.
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..."a welcome arrival, providing a comprehensive description, analysis ans discussion of the interdisciplinary team in a health care setting...Everyone with and interest in health care teamwork will do well to read the foreward carefully., , , a gift to the field....a valuable tool for beginners as well as pertinent reference and refresher course for those engaged in team practice and education. Almost all the concepts, sociological analysis, and guidelines are equally applicable for interdisciplinary team care in other non-health care settings. It is a valuable and important resource for both practitioners, educators and administrators within all disciplines as well as for students at all levels."-Journal of Geronotological Social Work
"Students, educators, and practioners of interdisciplinary teamwork in health care delivery will find this text to be a comprehensive, thoughtful, and empathetic treatment of the challenges team members face in the context of contemporary health care....With this book as a guide, health care providers and students will be well equipped to increase their effectiveness as members and leaders of interdisciplinary teams."-Journal of Allied Health
?Students, educators, and practioners of interdisciplinary teamwork in health care delivery will find this text to be a comprehensive, thoughtful, and empathetic treatment of the challenges team members face in the context of contemporary health care....With this book as a guide, health care providers and students will be well equipped to increase their effectiveness as members and leaders of interdisciplinary teams.?-Journal of Allied Health
?...a welcome arrival, providing a comprehensive description, analysis ans discussion of the interdisciplinary team in a health care setting...Everyone with and interest in health care teamwork will do well to read the foreward carefully., , , a gift to the field....a valuable tool for beginners as well as pertinent reference and refresher course for those engaged in team practice and education. Almost all the concepts, sociological analysis, and guidelines are equally applicable for interdisciplinary team care in other non-health care settings. It is a valuable and important resource for both practitioners, educators and administrators within all disciplines as well as for students at all levels.?-Journal of Geronotological Social Work
.,."a welcome arrival, providing a comprehensive description, analysis ans discussion of the interdisciplinary team in a health care setting...Everyone with and interest in health care teamwork will do well to read the foreward carefully., , , a gift to the field....a valuable tool for beginners as well as pertinent reference and refresher course for those engaged in team practice and education. Almost all the concepts, sociological analysis, and guidelines are equally applicable for interdisciplinary team care in other non-health care settings. It is a valuable and important resource for both practitioners, educators and administrators within all disciplines as well as for students at all levels."-Journal of Geronotological Social Work
"Everything you want to know about health care teams and how they work (or fail to work) is provided in this handbook. The emphasis on teaching of teamwork skills is particularly welcome."-Rosalie A. Kane, DSW Professor, School of Public Health Adjunct Professor, School of Social Work University of Minnesota
"The material covers the state of the art of interdisciplinary health care teamwork. I especially liked the case study approach. The models which are at the core of the material serve as learning tools to which readers can return as questions arise in their team development experience."-John Toner, EdD Associate Clinical Professor, Psychiatry Columbia University
"This book offers a handy compendium on interdisciplinary teamwork.... Developing and sustaining and interdisciplinary team is hard work; it is no task for the uncommitted. This is a book about how to do it not whether to do it. It is a book for believers."-Robert L. Kane, MD Minnesota Chair in Long-term Care and Aging University of Minnesota School of Public Health
"Drinka and Clark provide a framework for interdisciplinary teamwork that meets the challenges of our contemporary health care arena. This is an important new resource for those who must step up to the challenges of today's environment and recognize the importance of effective team interaction in service delivery."-Diana L. Kongevick Executive Director Public Employees Benefits Cooperative of North Texas
"This work documents the accumulated wisdom of the authors, it is clearly the product of wide and reflective experience.... Overall this is a fine book that will serve as a guide for students and professionals.... Thoughtful study of this one will enhance the practice of health care teamwork thereby improving the care of patients with complex needs."-A.S. Macpherson, MD Professor Emeritus McMaster University
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"Students, educators, and practioners of interdisciplinary teamwork in health care delivery will find this text to be a comprehensive, thoughtful, and empathetic treatment of the challenges team members face in the context of contemporary health care....With this book as a guide, health care providers and students will be well equipped to increase their effectiveness as members and leaders of interdisciplinary teams."-Journal of Allied Health
?Students, educators, and practioners of interdisciplinary teamwork in health care delivery will find this text to be a comprehensive, thoughtful, and empathetic treatment of the challenges team members face in the context of contemporary health care....With this book as a guide, health care providers and students will be well equipped to increase their effectiveness as members and leaders of interdisciplinary teams.?-Journal of Allied Health
?...a welcome arrival, providing a comprehensive description, analysis ans discussion of the interdisciplinary team in a health care setting...Everyone with and interest in health care teamwork will do well to read the foreward carefully., , , a gift to the field....a valuable tool for beginners as well as pertinent reference and refresher course for those engaged in team practice and education. Almost all the concepts, sociological analysis, and guidelines are equally applicable for interdisciplinary team care in other non-health care settings. It is a valuable and important resource for both practitioners, educators and administrators within all disciplines as well as for students at all levels.?-Journal of Geronotological Social Work
.,."a welcome arrival, providing a comprehensive description, analysis ans discussion of the interdisciplinary team in a health care setting...Everyone with and interest in health care teamwork will do well to read the foreward carefully., , , a gift to the field....a valuable tool for beginners as well as pertinent reference and refresher course for those engaged in team practice and education. Almost all the concepts, sociological analysis, and guidelines are equally applicable for interdisciplinary team care in other non-health care settings. It is a valuable and important resource for both practitioners, educators and administrators within all disciplines as well as for students at all levels."-Journal of Geronotological Social Work
"Everything you want to know about health care teams and how they work (or fail to work) is provided in this handbook. The emphasis on teaching of teamwork skills is particularly welcome."-Rosalie A. Kane, DSW Professor, School of Public Health Adjunct Professor, School of Social Work University of Minnesota
"The material covers the state of the art of interdisciplinary health care teamwork. I especially liked the case study approach. The models which are at the core of the material serve as learning tools to which readers can return as questions arise in their team development experience."-John Toner, EdD Associate Clinical Professor, Psychiatry Columbia University
"This book offers a handy compendium on interdisciplinary teamwork.... Developing and sustaining and interdisciplinary team is hard work; it is no task for the uncommitted. This is a book about how to do it not whether to do it. It is a book for believers."-Robert L. Kane, MD Minnesota Chair in Long-term Care and Aging University of Minnesota School of Public Health
"Drinka and Clark provide a framework for interdisciplinary teamwork that meets the challenges of our contemporary health care arena. This is an important new resource for those who must step up to the challenges of today's environment and recognize the importance of effective team interaction in service delivery."-Diana L. Kongevick Executive Director Public Employees Benefits Cooperative of North Texas
"This work documents the accumulated wisdom of the authors, it is clearly the product of wide and reflective experience.... Overall this is a fine book that will serve as a guide for students and professionals.... Thoughtful study of this one will enhance the practice of health care teamwork thereby improving the care of patients with complex needs."-A.S. Macpherson, MD Professor Emeritus McMaster University
THERESA J. K. DRINKA worked for 20 years with interdisciplinary health care teams as a clinician, trainer, administrator, and researcher at the University of Wisconsin and the Department of Veterans Affairs./e In 1996 she founded River's Edge Consulting and codeveloped Team Signatures, a unique technology that allows trainers to evaluate a team's changing dynamics.
PHILLIP G. CLARK is Professor of Gerontology and the Director of both the Program in Gerontology and the Rhode Island Geriatric Education Center at The University of Rhode Island./e He has extensive experience in teaching interdisciplinary health care team courses, developing interdisciplinary health care research and demonstration projects, and consulting on interdisciplinary educational development and evaluation projects in the U.S. and Canada.
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- PublisherAblex Publishing Corp.
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0865692971
- ISBN 13 9780865692978
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages218
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