Team Care for the Care Team: A Scoping Review of the Relational Dimensions of Collaboration in Healthcare Contexts

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Journal Article
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Publisher
Informa UK Limited
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Language
eng
Date
2024
Authors
Fox S
McAllum, Kirstie
Ginoux L
Abstract

Examining team care for the care team, this scoping literature review highlights the relational and compassionate dimensions of collaboration and teamwork that can alleviate healthcare worker suffering and promote well-being in challenging contexts of care. Its goal is to provide greater conceptual clarity about team care and examine the contextual dimensions regarding the needs and facilitators of team care. Analysis of the 48 retained texts identified three broad types of communicative practice that constitute team care: sharing; supporting; and leading with compassion. The environmental conditions facilitating team care included a caring team culture and specific and accessible organizational supports. These results are crystallized into a conceptual model of team care that situates team care within a system of team and organizational needs and anticipated outcomes. Gaps in the literature are noted and avenues for future research are suggested.

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Fox S, McAllum K, Ginoux L (2024). Team Care for the Care Team: A Scoping Review of the Relational Dimensions of Collaboration in Healthcare Contexts. Health Communication. 39(5). 960-971.
Keywords
Humans, Empathy, Models, Theoretical, Health Personnel, Delivery of Health Care, Patient Care Team
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ANZSRC fields of research
42 - Health sciences::4203 - Health services and systems::420306 - Health care administration
42 - Health sciences::4203 - Health services and systems::420309 - Health management
35 - Commerce, management, tourism and services::3505 - Human resources and industrial relations::350507 - Workplace wellbeing and quality of working life
35 - Commerce, management, tourism and services::3505 - Human resources and industrial relations::350505 - Occupational and workplace health and safety
35 - Commerce, management, tourism and services::3507 - Strategy, management and organisational behaviour::350707 - Leadership
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© 2023 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.