Nursing Insights on Interdisciplinary Team Dynamics

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A.  Summarize evidence-based practice, relevant national standards, or current literature to support the need for interdisciplinary teams (suggested length of 1/2–1 page).
B.  Summarize your initial meeting with the charge nurse or nurse manager and your experiences during the interdisciplinary team meeting you attended as either an observer and/or an active participant (suggested length of 1–2 pages).

Nursing Insights on Interdisciplinary Team Dynamics

C.  Discuss the roles of 3 interdisciplinary team members who participated in the interdisciplinary team meeting you attended.

1.  Explain how nurses play an important role in interdisciplinary team interactions.
D.  Evaluate your interdisciplinary team interactions by doing the following:

1.  Discuss how effective the leadership was during the team meeting, based on your observations.,

2.  Discuss two goals from the interdisciplinary team meeting you observed.

a.  Discuss how you participated or could have participated in achieving the goal(s) of the team.

3. Lastly, discuss the benefits of having a cohesive interdisciplinary team, based on your observations, for the following:

•  client or patient

•  healthcare organizationAPA