{"product_id":"improving-healthcare-team-performance-the-7-requirements-for-excellence-in-patient-care-paperback","title":"Improving Healthcare Team Performance: The 7 Requirements for Excellence in Patient Care - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeslie Bendaly\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNicole Bendaly\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePractical, proven techniques for improving team performance in the health care world\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeams and collaboration have become an expectation in most healthcare facilities and environments. It is accepted that high performance, patient focused teams are critical to quality patient care. However, there is often a wide gap between traditional practices and the new behaviours and practices required for teamwork and collaboration. \u003ci\u003eImproving Health Care Team Performance\u003c\/i\u003e goes beyond theory to provide the knowledge, tools, and techniques required to develop a single team, or to develop an organization wide team based culture, from which exceptional patient care emerges.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMost uniquely it emphasizes that effective teamwork goes far beyond team dynamics and provides detailed description of additional requirements, such as shared learning and change compatibility, and how to fulfill them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA practical handbook for healthcare leaders striving to ensure a superior patient experience and high quality of care, \u003ci\u003eImproving Healthcare Team Performance\u003c\/i\u003e not only provides specifics on how to develop high functioning teams, whether multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, or departmental but also offers those dealing with the common healthcare leadership challenges of low morale, poor communication, interpersonal conflict, and lack of knowledge sharing the tools to take immediate action to improve performance. Providing a proven approach to addressing and preventing everyday issues impacting patient care, \u003ci\u003eImproving Health Care Team Performance\u003c\/i\u003e contains everything needed to identify areas of greatest need within a team or department, take targeted action to address key gaps, and measure progress towards positive change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents a clear depiction of what constitutes collaboration and a high-performing patient focused team. This includes the skills and practices required to improve team performance and ultimately the quality of patient care, how to develop new attitudes and behaviours within the team, as well as the leadership requirements for success in a patient focused, team based culture.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a set of development tools accessible online to help the reader quickly and easily apply the knowledge gleaned.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers targeted solutions including tips\/recommendations, a step-by-step approach for affecting necessary change at every level of the organization, and skills and team development activities.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesigned for leaders working in any healthcare environment, \u003ci\u003eImproving Health Care Team Performance\u003c\/i\u003e is a practical approach to improving team performance and the quality of patient care.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Great leadership starts with deep personal reflection. This new addition to the leadership library will help create the conditions for sustainable change and transformation. It blends theory with practical how-to tools.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e- Hugh MacLeod, CEO, Canadian Patient Safety Institute\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImproving Healthcare Team Performance is a practical handbook that provides the knowledge, tools, and techniques required to develop a team-based culture within a healthcare environment that will result in exceptional patient care. Most importantly, the authors emphasize that effective teamwork goes far beyond team dynamics--and provide strategies for fulfilling each of the 7 Requirements that differentiate high-performance healthcare teams from the rest. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs healthcare leaders strive to ensure patient safety and a high quality of patient care amid the challenges of shrinking resources, less-than-optimally-functioning teams, and low staff morale, this book recognizes those challenges and offers actionable steps to improve performance by \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDepicting clearly what constitutes a high performing, patient-focused team \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering targeted solutions, including team development exercises complete with facilitator's guides and handouts, tips and recommendations, and a step-by-step approach for effecting necessary change at every level of the organization \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProviding a set of online development tools to help the reader quickly and easily apply the knowledge gained \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesigned for leaders working in any healthcare environment, Improving Healthcare Team Performance not only provides specifics on how to develop high-functioning teams, but also offers guidance on common healthcare leadership challenges along with the tools to create needed change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeslie Bendaly\u003c\/b\u003e is recognized as a forward thinker and practitioner in the areas of leadership, teamwork and organizational change. She is the founder of Kinect Inc. and author of several books on leadership including \u003ci\u003eStrength in Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWinner Instinct\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLeadership on the Run\u003c\/i\u003e. Her models, tools and publications are used in organizations worldwide and her books have been selected as mandatory reading for MBA and other postgraduate programs in both the USA and Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicole Bendaly\u003c\/b\u003e is president of Kinect Inc. and has developed a reputation as an acute observer and interpreter of organizational behaviour in healthcare. She applies her knowledge and experience to the design and implementation of learning solutions and assessment tools that support the development of patient-focused cultural change and improved leadership and team performance. A number of these are used in over 200 healthcare organizations across North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 30, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751319470368,"sku":"9781118199527","price":79.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6334a3339639123a700a76ae1ebc9b89.webp?v=1779970611","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/improving-healthcare-team-performance-the-7-requirements-for-excellence-in-patient-care-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}