Team Work and Critical Thinking
Rubenfeld & Scheffer (2015) suggested that interdisciplinary teamwork and collaboration involves different communication styles and can result in conflict that can negatively affect patient care practices. Discuss how you may be able to use conflict in a positive way to promote interdisciplinary teamwork and collaboration.
Bensimon and Neumann, as cited in Rubenfeld & Scheffer (2015), identified the following eight team thinking roles:
The definer (voices and creates the teams reality)
The analyst (assesses all of the parts of the issue)
The interpreter (provides insight on how team members perceive outcomes)
The critic (redefines, reanalyzes and reinterprets)
The synthesizer (elicits all thinking perspectives and helps provide linkages for solutions)
The disparity monitor (assesses how team members perceive outcomes)
The task monitor (removes obstacles to team thinking and facilitates the teamwork)
The emotional monitor (address the human, personal, and emotional aspects of team thinking during the thinking process.
Choose three (3) of the roles and share an example from your nursing practice of someone fulfilling the roles.
Why is this role necessary for the team thinking process to go smoothly?
How do other members of the team perceive this persons role?
Please do not include names or personal identifiers in your discussion.
Reading and Resources
Read Chapters 5 & 8 InRubenfeld, M. G., & Scheffer, B.K. (2015).Critical thinking TACTICS for nurses: Achieving the IOM competencies(3rded.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.
Bensimon and Neumann identified the following eight team thinking roles:
1. The definer (voices and creates the teams reality)
2. The analyst (assesses all of the parts of the issue)
3. The interpreter (provides insight on how team members perceive outcomes)
4. The critic (redefines, reanalyzes and reinterprets)
5. The synthesizer (elicits all thinking perspectives and helps provide linkages for solutions)
6. The disparity monitor (assesses how team members perceive outcomes)
7. The task monitor (removes obstacles to team thinking and facilitates the teamwork)
8. The emotional monitor (address the human, personal, and emotional aspects of team thinking during the thinking process.
Choose two of the roles and share an example from your nursing practice of someone fulfilling the roles.
Why is this role necessary in order for the team thinking process to go smoothly?
How do other members of the team perceive this persons role?
Interprofessional Communication- Team Work and Critical Thinking
Description: The baccalaureate-graduate nurse will examine the importance of interdisciplinary
teamwork and collaboration in nursing management.
Course Competency: 2) Interpret the impact of emotions on RN critical thinking behaviors. 6)
Propose ways to minimize conflict in the workplace.
QSEN Competency: 2) Teamwork and Collaboration
BSN Essential II
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Discuss how you
may be able to
use conflict in a
positive way to
promote
interdisciplinary
teamwork and
collaboration.
Fully discuss
how you may be
able to use
conflict in a
positive way to
promote
interdisciplinary
teamwork and
collaboration.
Superficially
discuss how you
may be able to
use conflict in a
positive way to
promote
interdisciplinary
teamwork and
collaboration.
Does not discuss
how you may be
able to use
conflict in a
positive way to
promote
interdisciplinary
teamwork and
collaboration.
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section
Choose three (3)
of the roles from
Bensimon and
Neumanns and
share an example
from your
nursing practice
of someone
fulfilling the
roles.
Choose three (3)
of the roles from
Bensimon and
Neumanns and
fully discusses an
example from
your nursing
practice of
someone
fulfilling each the
roles.
Choose two (2)
of the roles from
Bensimon and
Neumanns and
superficially
discusses an
example from
your nursing
practice of
someone
fulfilling each of
the roles or only
fully discussed
one role.
Choose one (1)
of the roles from
Bensimon and
Neumanns and
superficially
discusses an
example from
your nursing
practice of
someone
fulfilling each of
the roles or only
fully discussed
one role.
Does not address
section
Why is this role
necessary for the
team thinking
process to go
smoothly? How
do other
members of the
team perceive
this persons
role?
Fully discusses
why the role is
necessary for the
team thinking
process to go
smoothly and
discusses how
other members of
the team
perceives this
persons role
Minimally
discusses why
the role is
necessary for the
team thinking
process to go
smoothly and
discusses how
other members of
the team
perceives this
persons role
Does not discuss
why the role is
necessary for the
team thinking
process to go
smoothly or does
not discuss how
other members of
the team
perceives this
persons role
Does not address
section
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