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Medical Education & Training

Teamwork, Leadership and Communication

Collaboration Basics for Health Professionals

by (author) Deborah Lake, Krista Baerg & Teresa Paslawski

Publisher
Brush Education
Initial publish date
Aug 2015
Category
Education & Training, Health Care Delivery
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781550596434
    Publish Date
    Aug 2015
    List Price
    $19.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550596403
    Publish Date
    Aug 2015
    List Price
    $24.95

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Description

This practical, straightforward guide presents the basic skills, attitudes, and knowledge needed for successful interprofessional collaboration in healthcare. Collaboration is fundamental to quality healthcare, and many regulatory bodies and accrediting agencies now have standards and benchmarks for interprofessional collaboration. This guide brings together in one volume basic collaboration competencies for healthcare professionals.

 

Teamwork, Leadership and Communication serves both as an introduction for novices and as a refresher for experienced practitioners. It provides exceptional learning support for classes, working groups, and self-study. Topics include:

  • Group dynamics
  • Team structures
  • Decision making
  • Shared leadership
  • Conflict management
  • Communication in small groups
  • Stereotyping
  • Liability

About the authors

Dr. Deborah Lake is a clinical psychologist with 35 years of experience in collaborative settings in pediatrics, mental health, public health and school systems. She is currently an assistant professor in the Clinical Health Psychology Department at the University of Manitoba and works part-time with Child and Adolescent Psychology at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg.

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Krista Baerg is a consultant pediatrician and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Saskatchewan. Her clinical interests include interdisciplinary practice, patient- and family-centered care, pain management, and quality improvement. She completed her BScMed and MD as well as her specialty training in pediatrics at the University of Saskatchewan.

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Teresa Paslawski is a faculty member in the School of Rehabilitation Science, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Saskatchewan. She is a speech language pathologist with a PhD is in Neuroscience (Psychiatry). Teresa has taught in speech language pathology programs at the University of Alberta and Washington State University and has worked clinically in acute and outpatient rehabilitation and acute care.

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