Teamwork Competency

What is the Teamwork Competency?

Teams and Teamwork: Apply relationship‐building values and the principles of team dynamics to perform effectively in different team roles to plan and deliver patient‐ /population‐centered care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.   

Team and Teamwork Behavioral Expectations:

• Describe the process of team development and the roles and practices of effective teams.
• Develop consensus on the ethical principles to guide all aspects of patient care and team work.
• Engage other health professionals—appropriate to the specific care situation—in shared patient‐centered problem‐solving.
• Integrate the knowledge and experience of other professions—appropriate to the specific care situation—to inform care decisions, while respecting patient and community values and priorities/preferences for care.
• Apply leadership practices that support collaborative practice and team effectiveness.
• Engage self and others to constructively manage disagreements about values, roles, goals, and actions that arise among healthcare professionals and with patients and families.
• Share accountability with other professions, patients, and communities for outcomes relevant to prevention and health care.
• Reflect on individual and team performance for individual, as well as team performance improvement.
• Use process improvement strategies to increase the effectiveness of interprofessional teamwork and team‐based care.
• Use available evidence to inform effective teamwork and team‐based practices.
• Perform effectively on teams and in different team roles in a variety of settings.

 Learning Objectives:

We will address the Teamwork Competencies through the TeamSTEPPS® program. Specifically, this module will address the Leadership Pillar and Mutual Support Pillar of TeamSTEPPS.
Upon completion of the online module, you will be able to:

1. Describe interprofessional leadership techniques.
2. Describe interprofessional teamwork techniques.

Upon completion of the simulation module, which includes on-line case analyses, you will be able to:

1. Identify good and poor leadership and teamwork techniques.

TeamSTEPPS Leadership Pillar