Suzanne Gordon

Collaborative Caring: Stories and Reflections on Teamwork in Health Care - The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Suzanne Gordon

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references.; Teamwork is essential to improving the quality of patient care and reducing medical errors and injuries. But how does teamwork really function? And what are the barriers that sometimes prevent smart, well-intentioned people from building and sustaining effective teams? This book takes an unusual approach to the topic of teamwork. Editors Suzanne Gordon, Dr. David L. Feldman, and Dr. Michael Leonard have gathered 50 engaging first-person narratives provided by people from various health care professions. Each story vividly portrays a different dimension of teamwork, capturing the complexity - and sometimes messiness - of moving from theory to practice when it comes to creating genuine teams in health care. Review Quotes:"Collaborative Caring makes a unique contribution in the scope and breadth of teamwork it considers. It is an important book." Audrey Lyndon, PhD, RNC, FAAN, University of California San Francisco"Publisher Marketing: Teamwork is essential to improving the quality of patient care and reducing medical errors and injuries. But how does teamwork really function? And what are the barriers that sometimes prevent smart, well-intentioned people from building and sustaining effective teams? This book takes an unusual approach to the topic of teamwork. Editors Suzanne Gordon, Dr. David L. Feldman, and Dr. Michael Leonard have gathered 50 engaging first-person narratives provided by people from various health care professions. Each story vividly portrays a different dimension of teamwork, capturing the complexity - and sometimes messiness - of moving from theory to practice when it comes to creating genuine teams in health care.

Contributor Bio:  Gordon, Suzanne Suzanne Gordon is coeditor of the Cornell University Press series, The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work, and was program leader of the Robert Wood Johnson-funded Nurse Manager in Action Program. Contributor Bio:  Feldman, David L David L. Feldman, MD, is Senior VP and Chief Medical Officer at Hospitals Insurance Company. Contributor Bio:  Leonard, Michael Michael Leonard, MD, is Managing Partner at Safe and Reliable Healthcare, Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Duke University, and a faculty member at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.