The fourth chapter of the Connected Educator is called “Building a Collaborative Culture”. The author emphasizes how important it is for one to develop relationships in their professional career. In past chapters, the author frequently offers technological and educational tools to further and enhance one’s professional reputation and career. In this chapter, the author urges readers to create relationships and connections with individuals in the same field. Creating these solid connections with coworkers, or even individuals with the same common goal, develops a sense of trust and helps that common goal get achieved more efficiently and rapidly. There are two types of relationships that appear to be needed: congenial and collegial. Congenial relationships are cooperative, happy, and pleasantly working in the same environment. Collegial relationships are those in which there is shared responsibility among colleagues. Perhaps more important is collegial relations, because these are take more seriously and are more goal-oriented.
Within the chapter, the author mentions the four stages of collaboration within a group of colleagues. The initial stage, known as forming, is similar to an orientation. It is when the members initially grow comfortable among each other and get to know one another. Storming, the next step, involves conflict, confrontation, and basically much disagreement. There is not peace made in this stage, but there must be disagreement to build an efficient team. The next phase is known as norming. In this stage, there becomes common ground amongst members, and they calculate what is the best way to meet their end goals. And the final step, known as performing, is when the goal is accomplished and the relationship is fully developed.
While I understand that developing relations is vital to all fields and all careers, I truly comprehend how this relates to my future career as a nurse. In the medical field, specifically in the hospital, there are many different jobs, stages, and levels. There are nurses, physicians, technicians, surgeons etc. I think that developing these collegial relationships among other jobs within the medical field is vital. It is so important to establish trust between employees. With trust among members, the common goal, which is help and save patients, is much easier to reach. Moreover, it is essential for myself to form these collegial connections among other nurses. Nursing is a busy and high stress job. Developing these relationships will not only help the goal get reached more efficiently, but it will make the stressful job, not as difficult.
Trust is very important in the medical field. People are trusting you with their lives you need to be able to perform at all times. You also need to build relationship with the people you work with. Nurses work with doctors and the doctor that you work with needs to trust that you did what they asked you to do properly in order to make sure that that patient is in good hands. AS you work more and build a reputation as a truth worthy nurse, smoother team work is likely to follow due to the collaborative culture.
ReplyDeleteEmerson, Your emphasis on trust within a work team is essential to understanding how relationships, especially collegial relationships, affect the work environment. I can relate to this need for trust as a future Occupational Therapist, I will be working in teams of therapists and practitioners and we need to trust and establish that we are all working towards the same goals of helping to heal our patients’ ailments. With these common goals, it is imperative we establish friendly yet serious relationships so we can familiarize ourselves with each other and our working styles.
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