Teamwork, Leadership and Communication: Collaboration Basics for Health Professionals

Paslawski PhD, Teresa,Baerg MD, Krista,Lake, Deborah

ISBN 10: 1550596403 / ISBN 13: 9781550596403

Published by Brush Education, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Teamwork, Leadership and Communication: Collaboration Basics for Health Professionals
• Publisher: Brush Education
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1550596403
• ISBN 13: 9781550596403
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

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

Deborah Lake is a retired clinical psychologist with 40 years of experience with other professionals in pediatric outpatient clinics, mental health and public health services, and public school systems. She has held faculty positions at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Manitoba.

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.