Importance of Teams Paper

In healthcare, teams are a must. In order to be a team you have to understand what it means to be part of a team. There are teams of people in almost all types of industries. You can also take lessons learned from other industries and apply it to healthcare. Figuring out which organizational processes support problem solving is a plus. It is also helpful to know and understand The Five Step Planning Process if you want to achieve the goals of your organization.

To be in a team means that you work together with other people as a group and share all of the responsibilities together. Having teams in healthcare is essential because Baker (2006), "Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, technicians, and other health professionals must coordinate their activities to deliver safe and efficient patient care” (para. 8). If physicians, nurses, pharmacists, technicians, and other health professionals did not coordinate their activities then the patient care would disintegrate. Patients would then lose the trust they have for doctors, and that is not a good thing.

Let’s look at the military. They use teamwork every day. You can’t expect one single soldier to protect the entire country. They work with other people part of their platoon to help protect the country. There is no way a single soldier could have the strength, training, or ability to defend their home. It takes a team and the military strives off of their teamwork. Also let’s look at aviation. Aviation is the operating or flying of an aircraft. You have a pilot, a copilot, and flight attendants which all together make a team. They have to communicate back and forth about the flight, and also keep the passengers informed incase an emergency happens.

The way the military and aviation wo...

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...ve people there to help you and share the duties of the work load is a wonderful feeling. Learning how other industries work as a team and applying it to healthcare is a great advantage, and will help the healthcare organization go a long way. Having a planning process and using all employees and managers will achieve the goals of the organization to bettering itself.

Works Cited

Baker, D.P., Day, R., & Salas, E. (2006). Teamwork as an Essential Component of

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