Team Building

This class has been my favorite one so far. I thought coming into this day that we would be doing a different kind of team building. In the past, I have done activities that were less challenging and didn't truly require any kind of teamwork or leadership. The activities today allowed us to work together as a team to come up with solutions and then enact them together. I also thought that we wouldn't work well together, as we had not really interacted in that way before.

I actually learned that a team feeling is something that is gained through shared experiences more than sitting next to people in class. It was fun to see the different ways that we interacted with each other in this situation. We encouraged each other to do things that seemed difficult and solved problems as they came up. I can see how this would be beneficial in the workplace, especially if a unit were having difficulties working together. It may be difficult to actually implement but I think it would be worth it to promote teamwork. In my current facility, nursing staff and floor staff (everyday patient care) are separated by several factors and often have miscommunications and issues at work. I think that if the facility had us train together or work in teams we may have fewer communication issues and we would be able to provide better patient care.

Personally, I felt like this was a very valuable experience for me. I think it will be easier to work with my team for the rest of the semester and will help to incorporate our team members who were not in our cohort for the past five semesters. Additionally, it has given me ideas to pass on to my supervisors at work to solve a real problem.