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MEDS 580 Review Exam Questions With
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History - answer✔Moving away from idea that the outcomes are from individual efforts.
Acceptance of team based health care has been slow bc
-In training, clinicians are given the idea that they are individually responsible for what happens
Each member of the healthcare system is educated in isolation
Interprofessional training is uncommon
Work Team - answer✔A work group with specific characteristics that make it a team.
Characteristics of a work team - answer✔Shared team goal
Shared responsibility for achieving said goal
Defined membership
Authority for taking action to achieve the goal
Interdependency of team members
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Absence of larger sub-groups
Accountability to a larger organization
Risks of teams - answer✔Social loafing, degrading of decision making (by hierarchy or
personally, diminished creativity if the team is not managed well
Benefits of a team - answer✔Perform tasks faster than alone, enables innovation and individuals
to learn and organization to retain lessons learned despite turnover of individuals
More on benefits of team: Orgs are able to retain lessons learned despite turn-over of individuals
- answer✔Practices become codified within in the operation of the organization The organization
learns HOW to do things and perfects them with time
When members move away or retire, the lessons learned remain The team itself is a repository of
knowledge
More on benefits of team: Sources of innovation - answer✔With time, efficiency and accuracy is
built
The team becomes better equipped to function
Innovation allows for better care and better quality of care
True Team - answer✔refers to teams that have all of the 7 defining characteristics in the previous
slide PLUS stability of membership over time. They also have clear leaders and they provide
clinical care over extended periods of time or for repeated, time limited episodes
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Template teams - answer✔Have 7 characteristics and clear leader. HOWEVER, do not have
stable memberships and provide time limited episodes of healthcare like OB teams/code teams.
The CHANGING membership defines the template team. The roles and procedural routines
remain stable/the same.
Knotworks - answer✔Teams that come together temporarily in order to care for a patient; these
teams have no clear leader or membership and are very specific-care needs.
Networks - answer✔complexes of links between individuals and organizations, driven largely by
the interests of the parties and their recognition of the value of working together" Provide
information to other physicians to aid patient care
How do Networks differ to the rest? - answer✔-A looser grouping than those of knotworks
-Have no characteristics of work teams (the 7 characteristics)
-They show cooperation and shared interests
-No defined leaders, membership, or responsibility
-Meet together to further individual goals, which will ultimately help patient care
Refer to slide 15 image on clinical teams - answer✔all 7 characteristics: true team/template team
Stable membership: True team
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Clear Leader: True Team/Template team
Shared responsibility: Not Network
Smallpox - answer✔Poxvirus (largest type of virus, almost visible with light microscopy.
Includes variola (smallpox). molluscum, contagiosum, cowpox, and monkeypox <all share
common antigenic components with small pox which allowed for vaccine production>
Smallpox infection details "Pocks" - answer✔Once inhales, it reproduces in the respiratory tract.
-Less efficiently spread through contact with dried virus on clothes and scabs.
-Disseminated through blood and lymphatic system. After intiail infection, a more intense
viremia occurs and spreads to internal organs and skin.
Eradication of Smallpox - answer✔Direct vaccination of vulnerable populations utilizing
national healthcare networks
Actively seeking out cases and containing outbreaks
Quarantine
Increased efficiency of delivery (development of bifurcated needle) Cheap, provided more
effective vaccines with less material, easy to use
Use of jeeps and specialized vehicles to reach off road areas
12/3/2024 11:27AM
MEDS 580 Review Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
History - answer✔Moving away from idea that the outcomes are from individual efforts.
Acceptance of team based health care has been slow bc
-In training, clinicians are given the idea that they are individually responsible for what happens
Each member of the healthcare system is educated in isolation
Interprofessional training is uncommon
Work Team - answer✔A work group with specific characteristics that make it a team.
Characteristics of a work team - answer✔Shared team goal
Shared responsibility for achieving said goal
Defined membership
Authority for taking action to achieve the goal
Interdependency of team members
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Absence of larger sub-groups
Accountability to a larger organization
Risks of teams - answer✔Social loafing, degrading of decision making (by hierarchy or
personally, diminished creativity if the team is not managed well
Benefits of a team - answer✔Perform tasks faster than alone, enables innovation and individuals
to learn and organization to retain lessons learned despite turnover of individuals
More on benefits of team: Orgs are able to retain lessons learned despite turn-over of individuals
- answer✔Practices become codified within in the operation of the organization The organization
learns HOW to do things and perfects them with time
When members move away or retire, the lessons learned remain The team itself is a repository of
knowledge
More on benefits of team: Sources of innovation - answer✔With time, efficiency and accuracy is
built
The team becomes better equipped to function
Innovation allows for better care and better quality of care
True Team - answer✔refers to teams that have all of the 7 defining characteristics in the previous
slide PLUS stability of membership over time. They also have clear leaders and they provide
clinical care over extended periods of time or for repeated, time limited episodes
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Template teams - answer✔Have 7 characteristics and clear leader. HOWEVER, do not have
stable memberships and provide time limited episodes of healthcare like OB teams/code teams.
The CHANGING membership defines the template team. The roles and procedural routines
remain stable/the same.
Knotworks - answer✔Teams that come together temporarily in order to care for a patient; these
teams have no clear leader or membership and are very specific-care needs.
Networks - answer✔complexes of links between individuals and organizations, driven largely by
the interests of the parties and their recognition of the value of working together" Provide
information to other physicians to aid patient care
How do Networks differ to the rest? - answer✔-A looser grouping than those of knotworks
-Have no characteristics of work teams (the 7 characteristics)
-They show cooperation and shared interests
-No defined leaders, membership, or responsibility
-Meet together to further individual goals, which will ultimately help patient care
Refer to slide 15 image on clinical teams - answer✔all 7 characteristics: true team/template team
Stable membership: True team
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Clear Leader: True Team/Template team
Shared responsibility: Not Network
Smallpox - answer✔Poxvirus (largest type of virus, almost visible with light microscopy.
Includes variola (smallpox). molluscum, contagiosum, cowpox, and monkeypox <all share
common antigenic components with small pox which allowed for vaccine production>
Smallpox infection details "Pocks" - answer✔Once inhales, it reproduces in the respiratory tract.
-Less efficiently spread through contact with dried virus on clothes and scabs.
-Disseminated through blood and lymphatic system. After intiail infection, a more intense
viremia occurs and spreads to internal organs and skin.
Eradication of Smallpox - answer✔Direct vaccination of vulnerable populations utilizing
national healthcare networks
Actively seeking out cases and containing outbreaks
Quarantine
Increased efficiency of delivery (development of bifurcated needle) Cheap, provided more
effective vaccines with less material, easy to use
Use of jeeps and specialized vehicles to reach off road areas
