Group Process
The healthcare field provides numerous opportunities and an imperative for continuous learning given its focus on inter-professional teamwork and collaboration. Collaboration and teamwork have become common in today’s healthcare settings given their contribution toward enhanced patient safety and outcomes (Epstein, 2014). Therefore, the modern healthcare setting is characterized by establishment of different work groups or teams with specific responsibilities and goals. One of the groups I’ve been involved in in the healthcare setting is a social care group in my current healthcare organization. Since this organization provides community healthcare services, it has established different work groups including a social care group. The group comprises of medical social workers whose goal is to work in collaboration with other healthcare providers and clinicians to provide patient and family-centered care. Some of the responsibilities of this group include providing grief counseling, crisis intervention, supportive counseling, child advocacy, and community resource networking for community members.
As a critical part of healthcare delivery processes in the organization, this social care group has experienced smooth progression in the different stages of group formation. During the forming stage, discussions were centered on identifying the scope...
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