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Teamwork at Intensive Care Unit
Abstract
Intensive care units are the units where patients in critical condition and in life threatening
danger are monitored while supporting and improving their vital functions with special treatment
and care teams. The health care team in intensive care units are functional teams where every
care group is gathered for a common purpose and working collaboratively while sharing responsibility
and authority. Contribution of each member in the team to patient care is valuable. An inadequate
care or non functioning of a care group effects the whole success of intensive care services
and causes critical outcomes in patient care process. The effective fulfillment of heathcare services
depends on organizational reasons as well as the quality and quantitiy of the professional providing
the care along with the quality of the relations between professionals. Disharmony in intensive
care team effects the team members while having a direct negative effect on the patients they provide
care and resulting an inevitable extension of the patient’s healing process. However in the intensive
care units, reason of existence of the team members is to provide individualized and
integrated care to patients. One way to achieve this fundamental objective is to create a team in intensive
care units that works effectively, efficiently and also provide harmonious functionality. In
this article, the definition of teamwork, the importance of teamwork in intensive care services,
teamwork process and features, the benefits, drawbacks and problems faced regarding teamwork
and suggestions for solving them is mentioned.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
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Bölüm
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Yazarlar
Yasemin Akbal Ergün
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Yayımlanma Tarihi
1 Haziran 2011
Gönderilme Tarihi
1 Haziran 2011
Kabul Tarihi
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Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 1970 Cilt: 15 Sayı: 1