Team Leadership and Partnering in Nursing and Health Care

Abstract

This book helps to foster the leadership expertise and partnerships that will facilitate the delivery of the highest-quality nursing care and health care. It focuses on building and maintaining effective partnerships, motivating and developing others in the team, organizational analysis, strategizing, communicating, planning and managing change, measuring team and partnership effectiveness through metrics, and leveraging results within and outside of the organization. The book is divided into four sections. Section I deals with nursing and health care team models and skills. Chapters cover building effective partnerships, strong teams and team strategies. The second section looks at the teams in action by discussing the team work, planning for team and partnership success, and measuring the success. Section III deals with the various nursing and health care team challenges. Team training is necessary for teams to thrive in an organization. SCAMPER method, TeamSTEPPS program, MedTeams programs and other techniques/programs are described in this section. The fourth section discusses the leveraging of nursing and health care team results by using self-advocacy, financial funding, and other mechanisms.