TEAMWORK: REVISITING THE CONCEPT AND ITS DEVELOPMENTS IN INTER-PROFESSIONAL WORK

Abstract

The increasing complexity of health needs that require expanded and contextualized approach and the organization of networked services has motivated revisiting the concept of teamwork, the team-integration and grouping typology and its attributes. Effective teamwork is an expression, on the one hand, of the articulation of the actions of the various areas from the recognition of their interdependence and, on the other, of the indispensable complementarity between instrumental and communicative action. It is noteworthy that teamwork is also an expression of the social division of labor and the transmutation of technical differences into unequal social value of specialized work of different professions and, therefore, of their agents. The contradictions present in work processes, in their substantiation with health needs, may be limited to reiterating the dominant models of health care or seeking to overcome them through reflective and dialogical mediations of team workers among themselves and with users, families and population. Finally, teamwork is one of the forms of interprofessional work together with interprofessional collaboration and collaborative practice, and this collaboration can take place in the team or in networking with users and the community.

patient care team; interprofessional relations; work