Overall Multidisciplinary Teamwork

This is a reflective essay based on my attendance at a multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting whilst on my two-week placement at a local mental health day hospital. The aim of this essay is to discuss the importance of the multidisciplinary team within the mental health environment and discuss factors that can influence the success or failure of multidisciplinary teams.

Unit 1 discussion asked to define the terms multidisciplinary and interprofessional, and then discuss our experiences in health care or public health teams. Given an example of when the team approach worked or did not work, and analyze whether the team was multidisciplinary or interprofessional.

I have scheduled an interview and time to observe a nurse leader with the Director of Nursing (DON) for the Virginian Nursing and Rehab facility in Fairfax, Virginia for Thursday October 2, 2014 at 7:30am. I plan on spending a full eight-hour shift with the nurse leader observing the following three leadership activities: 1) Observing her making rounds on the units 2) Observing and or participating in a nursing leadership meeting and 3) Observing the facility’s interdisciplinary team meeting.

One of the more important skills students will learn outside the classroom is teamwork. This quality can not be taught it must be learned by experience. Members will be on teams to compete in competitions. Students must learn the limits and strengths of their team member if they wish to succeed. This skill prepares students for the team work assignments which will be required in classes, as well as in everyday

Describe how you have collaborated as part of a multidisciplinary team in order to diagnose this patient’s condition? How have you contributed to the effective working of this team? (4 marks)

In 2011 there have been 49,900 women and 350 men that have been diagnosed with breast cancer within the United Kingdom (Cancer Research UK 2014). Individuals who are undergoing investigation for suspected breast disease can be referred for breast care services with symptoms or are recalled from the breast screening programme. The National Health Service Breast Screening Programme (NHSBSP) was introduced in 1988 which was due to the proposition of the Forrest Report that had been published two years prior (1986).

The purpose of this agreement is to delineate the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) response to ensure that professionals involved in the assessment, investigation, prosecution and therapeutic interventions of child maltreatment cases are doing so in a coordinated, cohesive manner, maximizing the positive outcomes for the victim’s physical, mental, emotional and safety needs, and for the pursuit of justice. Multidisciplinary team professionals through the instituting of the CAC have established the following goals: (1) to maintain a safe, child-focused, culturally-sensitive location for child forensic interviews, medical examinations, and advocacy services; (2) to minimize trauma to the child; (3) to enhance communication

A Multi-Disciplinary team (MDT) contains health professionals that work in partnership with clients to produce better health outcomes REF. They provide care that is efficient and effective (MOH, 2014c). Depending on the stage of the long term condition the MDT members differ in specialised fields that offers expertise and specific skills beneficial to the patient (MOH, 2014c)

We’ve seen a number of progressive healthcare systems emerge of recent, new care models designed to achieve better patient outcomes. A characteristic common to all is a multidisciplinary practice team. MARIE CAHALANE looks at the role paramedics can play in general practice by bringing care into the community

Team science is defined as integration of two or more scientific approaches to solve a complex, multifaceted problem. Team science has been defined as “ambitious multiyear initiatives to promote cross-disciplinary collaborations in research and training” (Stokols, Hall, Taylor, & Moser, 2008, p. S77) (Article 8). Team science is constituted by several elements: team education, team development, team assessment and evaluation. Team science is a way to organize the diverse elements which then help to build a new, emerging field. Team science helps with increasing the teamwork and collaboration amongst the group members. The collaboration can be increased amongst the team members in terms of management of the project and its complex

A major concept that we have learned about in our nursing 182 class is Teamwork. In this concept analysis we will see the conceptualization of teamwork, and critical attributes, related concepts and various cases, and illegitimate uses of team work. Teamwork is essential in the nursing field and this analysis will show just how important it is.

Collaboration of multidisciplinary team is essential to quality care and positive patient outcome. It seems that your team was able to accomplish successful collaboration with good communication and patient’s needs were met which will further facilitate patient’s adherence to treatment plan since barrier to treatment plan have been resolved. In addition, education and resources provided will empower patient to be active participant of his health care needs.

The term cross-functional team is new to me, however, after grasping a better understanding of the concept, I realize I have been part of one of these types of teams. However, the cross-functional team I was on, was not related to logistics or the supply chain. Instead, it was the way law enforcement coordinates certain units with specific skills to carry out an operation together. Recently, our agency experienced organization change to place employees with unique skills in other units to improve coordination and flow of communications between two or more units that would seldom speak with each other. This change has been welcoming and has improved the dissemination of information immensely.

The selected article of Zou & Ko (2012) found the positive influence on the teamwork skills through the systematic intervention along with the identified behaviours of Chinese students in Hong Kong working in team. The researchers further demonstrated that students have developed the improved awareness along with the conception of teamwork after the development of systematic efforts. However, the authors noticed a decline in the division of work in the session of post-test, which reflects a change of mindset of students in the appropriate direction. Moreover, certain changes have been observed in the students during interviews and it has been pointed out that the students did not get sufficient time for discussions in team work due to limited time between experiments and submission of reports and this influenced their team performance. This highlighted the students’ understanding about the significance of team work and communication with the team members. The aspects of dealing with the conflicts in teamwork have been highlighted in the interviews in the context of describing in written tests. The authors have also discussed the limitations of the study as they faced certain concerns for which they considered the alternative solutions. On the other hand, discussion of the study of Hernandez-Linares et al (2015) pointed that the students of engineering are incapable of organise teamwork as compared to the students of other domains and this can be due to the practical character of this domain. This allowed the researchers to highlight the insufficient team work that can be supplemented or improved by the group tasks and with the help of different learning techniques. The students are found to make mistakes and face

My vision of collaborative learning is a learning strategy that affords the students enormous opportunities and advantages not available through traditional learning processes. I believe that students in a collaborative team tend to attain