Teamwork in community care

What is teamwork? To some, it is like the battle cry of the innovators, the panacea of the jaded administrator or the latest fad in health care. I would like to help you look at it as a process whereby a group of people work together towards a common goal. It is cooperation and sharing. In the health care setting, it is a method whereby people who have been trained for different tasks contribute their various skills, expertise and differences in perception, to the management of problems of people needing health care. It is a co-operative effort directed towards meeting the health needs of a given community, hospital and beyond, in which the different professionals develop a working relationship in which they share and care, not only for their patients or clients, but for each other.