Lecture 8 Flashcards

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Upward Communication

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  • Subordinates up to superiors
  • Organization lack this, superiors arent aware of problems,
  • negatively impacting quality productivity and frustration levels
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Pelz Effect

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Subordinates have higher job satisfaction if feel superiors have influence on decisions at higher levels

If supervisors seen as supportive, it increases openness and satisfaction

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Downward Communication

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  • Superiors to subordinates
  • Primarily specifics of how to do job, rationales, organizational policies & procedures, performance feedback, etc.
  • Method (memo, newsletter, face-to-face) depends on situation
  • Good managers develop & send ethical, other-oriented messages & should address hostile environments
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What makes an environment hostile

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  • Difference in opinions
  • Verbal Abuse
  • Substance Abuse
  • Patronizing
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**Harassment and Assault Policies at Canadian Universities

St. Marys uni

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-Some looks (girls) look puzzled and confused

-Chant that mentioned,
offensive, non-consensual, under age sexual harassment’

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**Harassment and Assault Policies at Canadian Universities

Carleton uni rape Brittany galler

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  • Who was considered to be a friend
  • Woke up in her room the next morning with her clothes off
  • School has no direct policies or provincial oversight to implement report sexual harassment.
  • Took 6 days to take any action
  • Policy doesn’t specify what direction a student should do when assaulted.
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-“University of Saskatchewan views the full spectrum of harassment (bullying, discrimination & sexualized violence) as

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health-harming behavior that can undercut the human capacity to thrive and disrupt our working and learning environment”

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Horizontal Communication

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  • Coworkers at the same level
  • Most often work related

-informal communication “grapevines” (inaccurate but enhance teamwork & develop independence

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Outward Communication

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  • To outside organizations
  • Include client input on needs and performance

-Hospitals are using outward advocates to imply ideas for infrastructure, health care org. and more.

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How do we define where we stand on this apparent communication hierarchy? (VIDEO)

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  • Routine Operation
  • Death of wife, operation went wrong
  • Awareness of who was the lead was lacking
  • due to death of wife, report accountability was breached
  • nurses perspectives were different
  • nurse called for intensive care bed to be delivered
  • Attending and physicians ignored/belittled
  • caused misguided approach of procedure
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CIHC Six Interprofessional Competency Framework Domains

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  1. Interprofessional communication
  2. Pt/Client/family/ community centred care
  3. Role clarification
  4. Team functioning
  5. Collab leadership
  6. Interprofessional conflict resolution
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INterprofessional COmmunication

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  • make team work communication principles
  • actively listen to team members/pt/client/families
  • communicate to ensure common understanding of care decisions
  • develop trusting relationships with pt/clients/families/team
  • use info and communication tech to improve interprofessional client-centered care (standardized communication tools)
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Collective Competence

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“Health care is full of highly competent individuals… BUT, only sometimes do they come together to form a competent team”

  • Designing of seamless way of communicating (e-health)
  • shifting for primary health care team approach (less specific speciality more collab)
  • impactful point of failure
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How do we adapt our thinking toward a collective competence to provide better pt care

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  1. More seamless transfer of accurate info (ehealth)
  2. Shift to primary health care team approach
  3. Address most impactful points of failure in collective competence first (target initiatives)
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Conflict management

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** Reasons for conflict -> 10% difference in opinion, 90% wrong tone of voice

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Interpersonal Conflict

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  • an expressed struggle
  • between two independent people
  • Perceived goal incompatibility, scare resources, interference from others
  • who are attempting to achieve their specific goals
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Spectrum

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Mild differences - dispute - campaign - litigation - fight

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Pseudo - Conflict

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  • misunderstanding and miscommunication - miss meaning of message
  • Perception checking, watch for non-verbal cues, establish supportive not defensive climate
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Simple Conflict

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Different stands on issues (ideas, definition, goals)

-Clarify understanding, tackle one issue at a time, find truth in what they say, take time to cool off

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Ego Conflict

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Personal attacks
-each becoming more defensive about position
and issues become entangled

-try to steer back to simple conflict, focus on solving issue not the battle, write down what you want to say, vow not to reciprocate (use I language)

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Myths - Conflict is always

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A Sign of poor interpersonal relationship
-oversimplification as free expression of disagreement is sign of a healthy relationship

To be avoided
-normal part of relationships

Because misunderstandings

able to be resolved (agree to disagree sometimes)

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Conflict Management Styles

Avoidance: Lose Lose

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  • Try to side step issue
  • demand-withdrawal pattern

Advantage
-Time to think, cool down, assess options, put things in perspective

Disadvantage
-may appear don’t care about other person, conflict remains unresolved

-Nursing students scored highest for avoiding and accommodating behaviours

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Conflict Management Styles

Accommodation: Lose - win

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  • give into demand
  • seek approval
  • avoid scene

Advantage
-Show they are reasonable, gain credibility if trivial issue, appropriate if you are wrong/made mistake

Disadvantage:
-produces a pseudo-solution because issue not resolved, others may take advantage of you, may prevent finding a real solution

-Nursing students scored highest for avoiding and accommodating behaviours

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Conflict Management Styles

Competition: Win - Lose

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  • Stresses winning, blaming others
  • Resort to threats and warnings
  • appropriate if you believe position is correct and anything less harmful to you/others
  • Less likely to use competing or collaborating strategies
  • age was sig, indicator.
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Conflict Management Styles

Compromise: lose/win-lose/win

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-Each person gives a bit

Advantage:
-May find quick and/or temp solution, reinforces perception of equal power, save face

Disadvantage:
- May leave no one pleased, may be avoiding underlying issues

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Conflict Management Styles

Collaboration- Win-win

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  • Use other-oriented strategies to achieve positive solution for everyone
  • Fisher & Ury’s Principals: separate people from the problem, focus on shared interests, generate many options, & base decisions on objective criteria

Advantage:
-enhances commitment, builds rapport, considers other’s feelings

Disadvantage:
-Takes time, skill, patience and energy

  • Less likely to use competing or collaborating strategies
  • age was sig, indicator.

-older students more likely to use collaborating style of conflict resolution

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SBAR – Kaiser Permanente

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-Communicating critical info that requires urgent attention

o (S)ituation: What is happening with the patient?
o (B)ackground: What is the clinical background?
o (A)ssessment: What do you think the problem is?
o (R)ecommended: What needs to be done?

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Dare to Disagree TED TALK

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Openness alone does not drive change*

 We need recognize that people are going to think differently than us
 Find ways to engage with them
 Need people who really care
 Be prepared to change our minds

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Interprofessional Conflict Resolution

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Team members address conflict constructively by:

  • Valuing positive nature of conflict
  • identifying common situation that are less likely to lead to conflict, role ambiguity, power gradients, differences in goals
  • Knowing and understanding strategies to deal with conflict
  • Setting guidelines for addressing disagreements
  • address and resolve disagreements including analyzing causes of conflict (reach acceptable solution)
  • Establishing safe environment to express diverse opinions
  • Developing a level of consensus with those with differing views
  • allowing all members to feel their view points have been heard no matter what the outcome