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Team collaboration allows members to draw strengths and work in a team environment that enhances productivity and result. While working in one of the maternal wards as a nurse, I was able to be part of one of the most incredible teams I have ever worked with. One of the pregnant mothers developed signs heart of the problem, and a cardiac team was called and formed a team with maternity nurses to work together. The team's goal was to refer to efforts with the team to produce the best outcomes, which were to save the mother and her unborn child's lives. Both the nurses and the surgeons were willing to pull their weights, share ideas, and collectively approach the issue to achieve the desired results. Everyone in the team was aware of their responsibility, when, and how to do what, making working together easy. The outcome of the teamwork was commendable as both the mother and her newborn baby were saved, and it was a celebratory moment for the hospital.

What contributed to the positive outcome of this team collaboration was everyone's willingness to work together. As a team, we communicated well with one another openly, sharing our opinions, ideas, and thoughts on the way forward. For any team, communication is essential to keep track of the progress made and the efficiency of working together on the task ahead (Claure & Jung, 2021). Another contribution that made the team achieve this positive result was that all team members stayed focused on the results and the goal of saving lives. When the surgeons arrived in the nurse's ward, they did not take the authority to lead the case, but we all worked as a team to agree on what was to be done and how to execute it, rather than just delegating responsibilities. The team was also organized, which made the planning of the event manageable and efficient. All team members were ready and briefed at all times on the next order of the treatment plan.

In my opinion, I believe everyone's contribution to the teamwork was positive because of their willingness to be part of something bigger than themselves, and their moral standards to do could and help the pregnant mum and her unborn child. Surgeons or nurses, everyone forego the role or the position they take in the hospital and put the patient's interest first. Everyone in the team is happy to offer a helping hand and provide support to one another during the time we worked together (O'Leary, Manojlovich, Johnson, Estrella, Hanrahan, Leykum, & Williams, 2020). Another reason why the team had positive results because everyone was different, and they offered their unique set of knowledge and experience. Working together as nurses and doctors, and surgeons created a diversified team that allowed all the required skills to be covered by someone on the team. Teamwork also allowed a chance for creativity, and every time member was assigned a specific role as it aligned with their skills and strengths.

1. Mariah Beckwith

I can definitely say that I have been a part of an amazing team. As a matter of fact, I am currently overseeing that amazing team as a restaurant general manager. Although I have only been in the position for a little less than six months, this team has truly made an impact on my existence for a lifetime. My team is a team that consists of four shift managers, three team trainers and ten crew members. Before the promotion and transfer to the current store, my team was made of half the people it is now. The location was experiencing a rapid turnover due to a hostile work environment stemming from leadership. Coming in to this store, everyone was delighted to have new leadership although there was some hesitance from some staff members. I was truly astounded by how eager the majority of team member were to show their potential. That is exactly what they did. We have and will continue to develop and change the entire atmosphere and efficiency of the operation as a team every day. Within the first three months, guest feedback, cleanliness and restaurant audit scores increased substantially. Coming in to this new audit season, I am proud and excited to see how we do this time! If it weren’t for my teams willingness to step up and trust in our mission, it would not be the amazing team it is. There’s nothing more accomplishing than seeing people grow and regain their drive! I can name a number of influences that contribute to the team being positive. I am a strong believer that a team and an environments influence starts from the top down. With that, I know the first impact was the elimination of the source that created a toxic work environment. Following that, I came in truly believing I could provide the much needed opposite. I held management meetings from the beginning to ensure all other leaders were on the same boat. They were very eager to contribute to our rebuild. A huge area of focus for all leadership was and still is coaching. Creating learning opportunities and correcting bad habits is a key aspect to maintaining team efficiency. What makes my team so amazing to me is how much of a difference we have all made already. These contributions to the team are positive because the energy and the numbers together prove we are in the right direction. We have only just began to express our potential.

2 Flavien

Teamwork is a skill we all have to master at some point in our lives. We are introduced to teamwork from early on in the school setting and we can be sure the act of practicing teamwork follows us through adulthood into our careers. Teamwork means collaborating with others to make ideas come to life or to attain the success of preset goals (Merriam-Webster, n.d).

Teams are assembled in order to use a varying set of skills, manpower and knowledge to achieve a goal. However, occasionally a team may not be cohesive and collaboration may be hard to achieve.

I have had the experience of being on great teams as well as those that need some work. A few years ago, during my time serving as an Army medic, I belonged to the “Evac Section” of the medic group. Initially, when I first joined the team, there was cohesion and no one was confused on their roles or assigned tasks. A few months in, the senior medic/section lead left for another duty location. This left us without a senior for what would be about four and a half months. Immediately following the senior’s departure, the confusion began. There had not been a direct assignment as to who should have taken the lead during the interim period up till the new senior arrived.

There were two E-5 junior non-commissioned officers (NCO) and it seemed like it was a power struggle between the two. They both wanted to be the non-commissioned officer in charge (NCOIC) and would hand out tasks arbitrarily. Communication certainly was poor. It seemed sometimes that neither communicated with the other. We the junior enlisted were subjected to broken communication lines which resulted in persons showing up to formation when there was none. Or wearing the wrong uniform because there had been a battalion last minute change. It was chaos. Junior enlisted personnel paperwork were mishandled resulting in leave requests not being submitted.

Eventually our new senior arrived and he took charge. Things once again became organized and less exhausting. We scheduled tasks on a calendar. No one was confused about where they needed to be. Communication lines were restored and things smoothed out.

My time as a medic in this team gave me a taste of both a functional cohesive team as well as a dysfunctional team. In both positive experiences, the leaders, both senior NCO’s, had over a decade in the Army. They were experienced in their leadership style and had been knowledgeable about what was needed to successfully ensure collaboration, cohesiveness and effectiveness in the team. Additionally, both senior NCO’s knew how to effectively assign tasks in a manner that was balanced without causing burnout amongst team members. During the period where the experience was negative neither NCO truly had experience leading the team. Due to the outgoing NCO not assigning a suitable choice to act as the interim NCOIC, there was a power struggle with each trying to out-do the other. The caused the medic team’s effectiveness to deteriorate. As juniors, who were only about a year in, we did not know how to handle the situation.

The dysfunctionality caused conflict which got one medic in trouble and another choosing not to re-enlist. Tasks were disproportionately assigned. I remember another medic and I performing range coverage for four days leaving for the range at 3:30am and returning at 8:00pm. On the last day after our return my partner and I performed the necessary responsibilities post range operations. It was 9:30pm when we got back to the barracks, however we were expected to be ready to run at 6:00am after 4 physically exhausting days. With the senior NCO’s we were given “comp-time’ to rest and reboot.

Leading a team is a great responsibility which everyone cannot successfully perform. However, with training, self-education and communication with team members, the team can operate and a cohesive unit.

References

Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Collaborate. In Merriam-Webster.com dictionary.Retrieved October 3, 2021, from https://www.merriam

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The scientific method of obtaining, evaluating, and understanding diverse forms of data from different sources is data collection. Generally, data collecting is performed for research purposes to get a thorough understanding of a topic and lay a foundation for concluding. Health systems may use data to develop comprehensive perspectives of patients, customize therapies, improve treatment procedures, enhance collaboration amongst physicians and patients, and improve outcomes.

Data gathering is critical in healthcare, according to physicians, patients, financial advisors, and other organizations, and one of the primary reasons is decision-making. Because there is presently no comprehensive data on healthcare providers and patients, institutions cannot fully comprehend their patients' requirements. It is feasible to gather and assess quick results and efficiently using research and analysis tools. Physicians, administrations, and clinics may share information through the internet, potentially saving lives.

Artificial intelligence is among the most recent trends and has already made its way into the health sector. With its assistance, it is possible to obtain information most effectively and proactively enhance operations. Google, for instance, has previously partnered with Ascension and Mayo Clinic to improve cloud computing and apply the most cutting-edge AI technologies (Iyengar et al., 2018). Because the goal of health data was to save the people and improve the standard of living, businesses and governments are working hard to come up with new alternatives. Ai can store, process, and analyze large amounts of data (Kadiravan et al., 2021). Regardless of where a person is, this can train itself and offer quick and precise judgments.

Extensive data analysis can save the health field in the United States $300 billion every year. Whenever it comes to individual care delivery, the statistics skyrocket. Completely meticulous care and management might result in outstanding performance and cheaper expenses for hospitals and other health organizations (Fowler et al., 2021). The significance of healthcare data collecting for people is evident. The collecting and keeping of complex data in one location might decrease the frequency of visits to the doctor and minimize needless medications.

Data that originates and is kept within your company is referred to as internal sources. External data is information gathered by your external setting from other persons or entities.

Qualitative data is descriptive information that is frequently utilized to describe the background of a project's results. Qualitative data is crucial in project assessments because context and external factors may influence effectiveness. Interviewing, focus groups, and qualitative project evaluations are types of qualitative data collecting techniques. Quantitative data is numerical information that may be tallied to determine what has changed throughout the activity. Surveys, questionnaires, and program monitoring tools could all be used to obtain quantitative data. Data analytics is known to evaluate raw statistics to uncover patterns, make assessments, and suggest corrective actions. Present and historical statistics are used in care delivery analytics to acquire macro and micro knowledge and help judgment at the patients and corporate levels.

In current history, data gathering in healthcare institutions has grown highly simplified. Not only can the statistics be utilized to enhance daily operations and clinical services, but they can also be used to enhance advanced analytics (Lee et al., 2021). We can utilize these databases to find trends and generate predictions rather than only focusing on past or present data. We can now take preventative steps and monitor the results.

References

Fowler, J., Jarvis, P., & Chevannes, M. (2021). Practical statistics for nursing and health care. John Wiley & Sons.

Iyengar, A., Kundu, A., Sharma, U., & Zhang, P. (2018, July). A trusted healthcare data analytics cloud platform. In 2018 IEEE 38th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) (pp. 1238-1249). IEEE.

Kadiravan, Dr & Pothula, Sujatha & Asvany, T. & Rasappan, Punithavathi & Elhoseny, Mohamed & Pustokhina, Irina & Pustokhin, Denis & Shankar, Dr. (2021). Metaheuristic Clustering Protocol for Healthcare Data Collection in Mobile Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks. Computers, Materials & Continua. 66. 3215-3231. 10.32604/cmc.2021.013034.

Lee, C., Luo, Z., Ngiam, K. Y., Zhang, M., Zheng, K., Chen, G., ... & Yip, W. L. J. (2017). Big healthcare data analytics: Challenges and applications. In Handbook of large-scale distributed computing in smart healthcare (pp. 11-41). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58280-1_2

1. Amber Myers

Healthcare Data has many purposes and is very important in the healthcare world and from my personal and professional experiences I feel it is complex but very helpful and when tracked and managed correctly it helps improve and build many results for better, affordable and safer patient care. The healthcare and patient data is shared throughout many organizations, clinics and hospitals to improve and speed up care coordination for patients throughout all of their providers and specialties whether it be for complex care or just general health maintenance for example to make sure no medications are being crossed, duplicated or missed where needed. The data also helps in most cases to help keep healthcare affordable while helping with reimbursements where needed the tracking helps to make sure there are no over charges and unnecessary services or procedures being offered when not needed as well as any malpractice taking place.

There are several different types of data and sources used in Healthcare to include Internal and External, internal data is usually details and statistics tracked and produced within an organization to include finance,maintanence reports, staffing and operations accounts. External data typically comes from the outside market to include patients reviews and feedback, information pertaining to competitors and research needed for all areas of improvement and patient satisfaction. There is also qualitative and quantitative data used in healthcare, quantitative research is primarily done through studies, tests and experiments while qualitative research is done through real time examinations, actions and monitoring.

Data Analytics uses current and recorded used to gain understanding on decision making on both the patient and business side of healthcare it is also the actions or operations used in inspecting data sets and is used in many different ways through out healthcare management and delivery, it allows for enhancement and development in patient care, preventative steps, error free diagnoses and treatments that are tailored to specific patients needs by using various systems and tools to collect all the data in real time needed to include patient portal, Electronic medical records, electronic prescription portals and health related apps patients can get right on their mobile phone for on the go convenience and direct access to there providers and care from anywhere.

2. Rachel D Owusu

Data is a significant element in enhancing patient outcomes in reimbursement. Data collection allows the health care system to develop holistic perceptions on health outcomes, improvement of information between patients and doctors, advancement of treatment strategies, and personalized management. Personal electronic health records involve a system that collects evidence on the health status of patients from a different number of sources (Reddy & Aggarwal, 2015). More so, reimbursement in health care is a great element. Reimbursement in health care is a process where private guarantors or administration organizations pay for the amenities of healthcare benefactors. Health care data provide information on the effectiveness of reimbursement in patients' outcomes. It provides information that influences health care providers and insurance agencies on their impact in enhancing patient prognosis. There are variously internal and external sources of data in health care. The internal data in health care are accessed within the health care setup. The sources of internal data in health care include information systems, for example, patient data, cancer registry, and radiology information. The data is accessed within the health care setup. For example, patient data such as history and physical examination accessed in the health care institutions provide the internal information related to patient's health status. However, the external sources of data in the health care setup are information accessed from outside cradles. External health care data sources include Medicaid and Medicare services and information provided by the Joint Commission. Also, information from researchers in the medical field is recognized as the external source of data.

Hence, external sources of data in contrast to internal ones are accessed outside healthcare institutions (Reddy & Aggarwal, 2015). Quantitative data in health care use statistics such as the number of patients, prevalence of disease, and the outcomes of different health care services. The data is presented through numbers, ratios, and percentages. However, qualitative data in health care is used to describe perception, knowledge, and attitude. For example, qualitative data is used when the health care institution wants to determine the level of satisfaction of patients and their attitudes towards the health care services provided. Data analytics in health care is used to evaluate raw data to determine trends and make conclusions. In health care, data analytics utilize historical and current data to have knowledge on micro and macro and enhance decision making at organizational and patient levels.