Includes bibliographical references and index.

Teamwork is an undisputed asset for reducing nursing and medical errors, improving quality of patient care, resolving workload issues, and avoiding burnout. This text helps to foster the leadership expertise and partnerships that will facilitate the delivery of the highest-quality care. It based on the time-tested wisdom that leadership knowledge, skills and, competencies gained by training a group of nurses in the same organization rather than a single nurse are much more likely to result in genuine organizational transformation. It is the only text available to focus in depth on building and.

The intersection of teams, partnerships, and leadership in nursing and health care -- Elements of effective nursing and health care teams and partnerships -- Getting started : building a strong team -- Team strategies for success in nursing and health care environments -- Working as a team within the nursing and health care organization -- Planning for nursing and health care team and partnership success -- Measuring team and partnership success in nursing and health care environments -- Periodic maintenance for thriving nursing and health care teams and partnerships -- Team leadership training and development program exemplars -- Leveraging productive nursing and health care teams inside and outside of the organization -- Nursing and health care partnership building for sustained team results.

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