Team Working and Patient Safety

About this activity

This session will demonstrate how effective teamwork is a determining factor in patient safety, and will enable you to ensure that any team you work with is effective and therefore able to provide safer care for the patient. Objectives By the end of this session you will be able to: Define what is and is not a team List what makes a multi-disciplinary team effective Describe research evidence of how these factors contribute to patient safety Use a checklist with any team as a basis to discuss its effectiveness Create a plan, in conjunction with the team concerned, to build on the team's strengths and improve its effectiveness