Introduction In the health care setting, service delivery for clients usually involves collaboration between Registered Nurses (RNs) and other multidisciplinary team members to meet the clients’ needs (Doyle, 2008; Ward, 2013). Before facing this actual working environment, nursing students should gain collaboration ability and be accustomed to it during their study. In the unit Mental Health for Practice, students were given an opportunity to develop collaboration skill in an assigned group project by developing a YouTube presentation to complete the task. This reflective piece will discuss the process of forming the group and the selection of roles for each member. The relationships within the group will be explored along with my own self-awareness after completing the project. Process O’Neill & Cowman (2008) define a group as more than one person with diverse abilities joining forces to obtain the same goals. According to the authors, a group can work effectively by respecting one another, having open communication, understanding each other’s roles and providing time for regular meeting to achieve desired outcomes. Sargeant, Loney, & Murphy (2008) also shared the same view regarding the criteria of an effective group work. These criteria were applicable in the process of our group work as the group formation and topic choice showed a high level of cooperation. The group was formed due to the fact that all team members knew each other beforehand. Coincidentally, the team members were all international students which made it seem likely to choose a topic related to the circumstance of being international students. The decision for the group topic: ‘International Students’ Mental Health Issues’, was reached after a thorou... ... middle of paper ... ...ers would also showed respect during the group discussion, by providing space and time for each member to vocalise the thought before the other members tried to express their ideas. After these implicit rules were displayed, the next part was to present the main issue that occurred during the finishing process of the group task. Although completing individual task was not a difficult challenge in this group work, combining each member’s materials for the YouTube recording proved much harder. One person who was in charge of undertaking this task had difficulties on collecting the others’ workload. Complication was occurred during the members’ attempt on sending their parts via emails. Due to the fact that it was hard to send the recording files as a whole data, the members decided to solve the problem by sending the files into several parts to the editing person.
By working together there is information sharing, improve safety and quality also collaboration gives knowledge to other professionals. (Littlechild and Smith, 2013).what I have learned through working in partnership with other professionals was creating a poster related to what each professional does. Some of the professionals I did not know how exactly they work together in partnership. Example: I was not aware of how a radiology would work with a social work and the outcome of that was that Radiology develop and maintain collaborative relationship with medical colleagues and participates in regular meetings with other professionals activities to meet the needs of a service users therefore they collaborate with Social Workers. By doing a poster and delivering information I learned a lot from the other team members, shared experiences knowledge and skills with other group members. Group work made me realise how it is very important to work in multi-displinary team, the benefit of it and what others can benefit from. During the poster each of the student was from different professional however we all had the question but each had to look at it in each profession perspectives. This gave an opportunity to everyone to go and search for each professional and communicate with the rest of the group the outcome of the presentation. By doing that, we exchanged ideas learned from each other’s skills and used it into practice. I have learned about sharing information with others, learned about communication and
Engleberg, Isa N. and Dianna R. Wynn. Working in Groups. 6th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2012. Print.
Normally in a group, the work will be divided into the number of members in the group and may be arranged to each of the members to receive the part where they are more confident and have more knowledge of it. In addition, if a member is confused with their work, he can receive assistance from his teammates rather than just being alone and figure it himself independently. However, I believe sometimes been in a group can have its cons. A common pitfall associated with working as a group is disagreement about the way something is being done, a particular issue, or an opinion. Sometimes one member might have his own beliefs and want to perform a task in their way and conflict can arise from this. Once conflict arises, the members can discuss their own opinions and might arrive to a solution, but this can cause a member to not show their full potential because something was not done the way they wanted. I believe this is very common but if you are open minded, it can be overcome for the sake of the team to be
This is a reflective essay based on my attendance at a multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting whilst on my two-week placement at a local mental health day hospital. The aim of this essay is to discuss the importance of the multidisciplinary team within the mental health environment and discuss factors that can influence the success or failure of multidisciplinary teams.
The first chapter of “Working in Groups” focuses on group communication, the first aspect being the key elements of group communication (Engleberg and
A group is defined as two or more individuals, interacting and interdependent, who have come together to achieve particular objectives (Robbins & Judge, 2009). At some point in all of our careers, we will be tasked with working within a group setting. This discussion board will focus on conformity and deviant workplace behavior, and how each can negatively affect the outcome of working within a group setting.
pp. 309-329, 371-393, 241-259. Engleberg, I., Wynn, D., & Schuttler, R., (2003). Working in Groups: Communication Principles and Strategies (3rd ed.) Boston: Houghton-Mifflin.
Next in scenario 2, Mr. Andy has to cope with two of his students who are Danish and Ani. In settling with Danish problem which are, always having difficulty to focus on completing his task, Mr. Andy use the strategy of Kounin’s Group Management Model. Accordi...
living in a modern society, often times we are given with task that we must complete in given period, and sometimes we are given task that is too much for us to handle on our own. With that, we are required to form groups with other individuals and work together to complete such given task as working in groups will significantly reduce the time required as well as the workload to complete such task.
Each individual is categorized into a group from the day they were conceived. According to Kozier et al (2010) a group is “two are more people who have shared need and goals, who taken each other in account in their and who, thus, are held together and set apart from others by virtue of their interaction” (p. 400). The communicate that takes place between members of the group is group dynamic (Kozier et al, 2010). Motivation for participation and similarity of other group members and the goals of the group will affect the group dynamic (Kozier et al, 2010). The type of group that was created was a task group and Kozier et al (2010) stated that “the focus for such group is completion of a specific task, and the format is defined at the outset by the leader or members” (p.400). The purpose of the group was to choose a community health care organization, and then presents the information to the class. To increase the student understandings of what a community health organization is; to demonstrate understanding of community based health care nursing practice. To provided information on the different aspects of the community health organization and to identify various roles of nurses within the community health organization. In order for a group to be effective, three functions are required. It must maintain a degree of group unity, it needs to develop and modified its structure to improve its effectiveness and it must accomplish its goals (Kozier et al, 2010).
After completing the group task of preparing a presentation on, transferring individual facilitation skills into a group work setting, I will critically reflect upon my own participation. I will evaluate my self-awareness while working in the group, as well as those around me. The way that I personally dealt with any issues that arose within the group and how that affected the group dynamics. I will also briefly discuss the roles in which each member of the group took part and how role allocation affected, the group dynamics and the working relationships. Finally, I will evaluate my work having discussed it with my fellow group members.
...tates group discussion by taking care of logistical concerns like where meetings are and what supplies we needed to bring to the meeting. I think I was a good group member. On top of my Prezi slides and written proposal, I put together the bibliography of everyone’s sources and was always open for communication. I can label myself as an opinion giver because I often expressed my opinions and beliefs about what the group should be doing in order to do better our presentation, which was constructive because it started conversations where we would bounce ideas off each other.
As said by Bill Richardson, “We cannot accomplish all that we need to do without working together”, but that is easier said, than done. The often rumored and associated nightmares one experiences with group work certainly may result in poor attitudes and approaches of the members. This may be the cause of the challenges faced in the groups. In the first group, all of the members were anxious to solve the case, because of this there were more opinions to consider. This made the whole process challenging.
They share information, discuss values, and collaborate on decisions. The self-esteem of team members correlates with involve-ment with decision making.” It is significant that you have to be able to work in the field of nursing to be able to participate in the decision- making or information process; for instance, you can’t be in other fields like sociology or criminology to participate in a group discussion concerning Nursing. Likewise as present, nursing is an emerging field of study that will provide more access to inspire many other
My role and my classmates’ roles in the group session were the group participants. As group participants, we were attentive and active listeners. Our group leader was Dr. Wallace and she was an effective group leader. Dr Wallace was an active listener, participated in the discussion, and showed a sincere interest in the conversation. She kept a calm tone, good eye contact, and had a good sense of humor which allowed us to become more relaxed and open to talk.