Section: Module 4 - Being an Effective Team Player | Patient Safety | NextGenU.org

  • Learning Outcomes:

    At the end of this Module, you should be able to:

    • Understand the importance of teamwork in the complex and specialized environment of healthcare, challenged by co­morbidities and chronic disease management.
    • Delineate the characteristics and types of healthcare teams.
    • Demonstrate how teamwork improves healthcare.
    • Describe stages of team development.
    • List challenges to effective teamwork and explain how to resolve these challenges. 
    • Required Learning Resources and Activities
    • Describe a healthcare incident, in the setting you work, leading to an adverse event that could have been prevented by employing effective teamwork.

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      Quiz: Being an Effective Team Player

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      TO PASS THIS QUIZ YOU MUST OBTAIN A SCORE OF 80%.