Interventional Radiology: Team Analysis

The teamwork I saw on the ACC unit and during my time at interventional radiology could use some improvement. During my time on the ACC unit on Monday I had completed some of my tasks and was then following my nurse around. I quickly noticed the phone kept ringing, many call lights were going off, and everyone appeared to be very busy. Apparently, several people decided to go on lunch at the same time. The people communicated to their partner they were going but since several people left at the same time it left the floor unprepared. I watched the extra staff transporter help answer a call light that ended up taking her a large majority of time because the patient could not be left alone in the bathroom. The transporter had told one of the nurses she would help get her patient set up in their room because they were completed with surgery and coming to the floor. …show more content…
While I think it is effective to work as a team and through partners. I think it is smarter to stagger all of the lunches due to the lack of people on the floor when half of the nurses decide to go on lunch at the same time. I think there needed to be more conversation via all the nurses and not just the partners. I think if the partner is extremely swamped they need to be vocal in telling their partner they probably should not leave yet because they would be unable to cover all of the patients. My unit did not have a list of what patient room numbers went with each nurse which left a lot of nurses’ scrabbling to figure out who they needed to find or call to help with various call lights. On another part of my unit there is a white board in clear site that says which nurses go with each