Teamwork benefits both patients and staff

Patients are benefiting from physicians and nurses coming together as a team, and teamwork produces greater job satisfaction for staff at the same time, says Jeanette Ives Erickson, DNP, chief nurse emerita of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In a recent interview with HealthLeaders Media, she offered five ways to bolster teamwork: include the patient in the team; incorporate teamwork in the hiring process; embrace handheld technology; make teamwork part of nursing school curricula; and for chief nurses, be an influential role model. (HealthLeaders Media article, 11/8/21)