TEAMWORK IN HEALTHCARE

Teamwork in Healthcare

Teamwork in Healthcare

In a team-based organization the primary units consist of work teams, or interdependent collections of individual employees who share responsibility for specified outcomes in the organization. An example of a team-based organization is Florida's Cape Coral Hospital, which organized all of its employees into teams and held them accountable for defined results. Among several kinds of teams at Cape Coral, patient care teams delivered medical services to the hospital's patients, ordered supplies, maintained budgets, and handled patient logistics (Sundstrom, 2006).

Today many enterprises incorporate team-based organizations, including private sector businesses such as automobile manufacturing, public sector ...