Collaboration

Teamwork is the process of working well with a group of people to meet an aim and is important in improving the health and quality of life of an individual with dementia. ("When was the last time you said this?", 2016) In health and social care, a team consists of many individuals, the service user, health professionals, relatives, care workers and many more. Health professionals that may be involved are a GP, an occupational therapist, a nurse and social services. As part of a team, each…

Collaborative work begins with communication and a mutual understanding of the end goal. For example, the 2010 disaster relief effort in El Salvador, multinational organizations united for the benefit of the affected people, who suffered a multitude of illness, damage to their homes, and ability to seek basic human needs. This form of collaborative takes an organizational strategy, which enables several organizations to take a strategic approach in problem solving, planning, preparing, and…

Furthermore, the hypotheses (more in depth next section), were tested on college students attending a Midwestern university of 492 participants around the age of 20 years old. The data illustrated, 303 to be men and 189 women. The identification of race indicated, 429 identified as whites, 39 as Blacks and 24 in the other category. Most of the students were college juniors followed by a few seniors. The experiment to test the hypotheses were conducted by pairing these students into different…

However, sceptics have questioned how the concept is sometimes interpreted, arguing that there is unclear logical and pragmatic examination of its value in professional development. Therefore, developing a reflective report is an undertaking that needs to be approached with caution, more so if individual reflection and critical thinking are to be rooted. The purpose of this reflective report is to reflect on the collaborative boat bus project performance and the experiences of working within a…

Some of the advantages of working collaboratively in an online community are more prominent than others. Asking questions and expressing ideas in writing opens the lines of communication (Garcia & Badia, 2014) allowing the entire group to have questions answered in writing which is beneficial to all parties, as it enables all people in the online community to have a better understanding of the subject at hand. The opinions and the point of view of others in the group facilitate co-constructing…

The reading for this week, Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager, was quite interesting. The book contained some great insights and concepts of self-leadership. Three concepts from the book Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager are challenging assumed constraints, celebrating your points of points of power and collaborating for success. These three concepts are discussed in detail in the next section. The “challenging assumed constraints” is a concept many individuals encounter in…

display competent behaviors based on the nursing process; collegiality, collaboration, education, principles, experience as well as management. Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN) and Registered Nurses (RN) have a similar scope of practice yet RNs have more responsibility and need more education. The two standards that are of particular interest to me that I would apply in my clinical setting as an RN are education and collaboration. The coursework for an RN and…

Collaboration is essential to the success of an inclusion classroom. Collaboration is more than teachers working together, it is comprised of individuals working with each other for a common result. Collaboration can further be broken down into characteristics that make for successful outcomes. In the inclusion classroom the special education teacher is often the professional most likely to collaborate. Some characteristics are easier to accomplish while others are more difficult. To achieve…

As a professional educator, it is important that I collaborate with colleagues. Collaboration between colleagues build relationships among teachers and plays a significant role in the growth of an educator. There are many positives to collaboration but communication is essential. We all have different perspectives, and ideas and when people meet, conflict can arise because of the many differences. Furthermore, the personality of teachers can also clash when a group meets. As a teacher leader, it…

While reading “Using Collaboration, Co-Teaching, and Question Answer Relationships to Enhance Content Area Literacy” by Nicole Fenty, I had a chance to learn about some strategies that can be used while co-teaching with a Special Education teachers and a general education teacher. Collaboration is the key to success in a general education setting where there are students who have an IEP because the teachers need to be on the same page of what the students need to learn while Co-Teaching. It is…