This in-house training program provided specialised, evidence-based training for the emergency department environment, resulting in development of the nurse practitioner candidate as a high functioning team member.
Synergy is often a defining feature of high functioning collaborative teams, with favourable outcomes possible from collective competences being greater that the sum of the team parts [ 45, 46].
Indeed, in the absence of vast new resources and many more imported physicians, it is likely that high functioning interprofessional teams are the only available route for increasing quality and productivity of our health care system.
Working in Collaborative Teams referred to BHPs' expressed desire to contribute to high functioning interdisciplinary primary care teams.
Yet, the difficulties of achieving and maintaining successful high-functioning teams are well documented.
These findings provided insight into the divisive forces present even in high-functioning teams, and alerted us to the strategies that team members enact as they seek to balance individual needs with team goals.
According to Saba et al. [ 6] newer models of primary care necessitate a shift in practice, from the historical system of a lone physician to that of a high functioning primary health care team.
Both dimensions proved to be important for high team functioning and team development.
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