[Team work in a family health care program: the team process concept and operational teams]

Rev Lat Am Enfermagem. 2005 Mar-Apr;13(2):262-8. doi: 10.1590/s0104-11692005000200020. Epub 2005 Jun 10.
[Article in Portuguese]

Abstract

This work is a theoretical revision of team work in a family Health Care Program. We define team work in the health care field as a relationship network among people, power, knowledge, affection, and wishes, when there is a possibility of identifying group processes. We deal with concepts of Operational Group from the Argentinean School, which might help health professionals to get training in team work. We have visible (spoken) and invisible (unspoken) tasks within teams, which are modified and need to be combined and known. Communication, learning, the feeling of belonging, the atmosphere, the actions' pertinence for the team's purpose and power relations may help the team to get to know and analyze each other and to build a team. External supervision may help the team to turn itself into an operational team, working towards a life care project.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Cooperative Behavior*
  • Family Health*
  • Humans
  • Interprofessional Relations
  • Nursing
  • Patient Care Team*