Building High-Performing Palliative Care Teams: A Guide to Intentional Communication and Team Building

This comprehensive guide is designed to help healthcare professionals form and maintain palliative care teams that thrive and succeed. Whether you’re starting a new team or seeking to improve an existing one, this book provides practical insights and strategies for building high-quality, high-performing teams.

Through a combination of empirical data and real-life stories from healthcare professionals in palliative care practice, this book explores the essential aspects of team players, leadership, meetings, organizational culture, and self- and team-care. By focusing on the individual professional in relation to team health and success, this book shows how to develop high-performing palliative care teams that deliver excellent patient care.

Understanding the Importance of Intentional Communication in Palliative Care

Effective communication is the foundation of successful palliative care teams. This book highlights the critical role of communication in leadership, team building, and patient care, providing practical solutions to common challenges such as poor team design, siloing, and faulty communication.

Key Features and Takeaways

• Satisfactory and unsatisfactory palliative care experiences from diverse perspectives, including nurses, social workers, chaplains, physicians, pharmacists, executives, patients, and families
• Pearls From the Field: provider and team takeaways for improving team functionality and patient care
• Best practices of team leaders and tips for individuals and palliative care teams to communicate with other providers, departments, and senior leadership
• Discussions on how to improve short-term and long-term functionality, and outlines to use as predictors of burnout for palliative care professionals and teams
• Self-care and team-care suggestions to promote well-being and resilience

A Comprehensive Resource for Palliative Care Professionals

This book is an invaluable resource for healthcare professionals at any stage of their career or team development. It provides a unique blend of recent research, theory, and practical advice, making it an accessible and engaging read.

Supplemental materials, including podcasts, videos, case studies, and self-care plans, are included to further enhance the learning experience and provide actionable strategies for building high-performing palliative care teams.