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Assignment 2: RA: Team Development
Teams go through stages of development. There are five stages and each stage has its own recognizable feelings and behaviors. The five stages are: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. Understanding why things are happening in certain ways on your team can be an important part of the self-evaluation process. This assignment prepares the reader with skills to analyze and negotiate team development challenges.
Scenario
You are the nurse manager of a telemetry unit in a large, urban-based, acute care facility. Due to recent evidence-based research and soaring pharmaceutical costs, administrators are debating switching to more non-narcotic pain management procedures. You recognize that despite the evidence, individuals within the culturally and generationally diverse nursing staff might respond differently to implementation of this practice change. You recognize that you need to develop a focus group or team prior to recommending any changes to the current policies.
The members of the team include:
- David (53 years old, white male): Pharmacist with 10 years experience
- Sarah (26 years old, black female): Nurse Educator with 5 years experience working on med-surg
- Mohammed (40 years old, Muslim male): Staff nurse with 8 years experience working on various units
- Emiyo (19 years old, Asian female): Patient Care Technician, 2 years nursing experience working on oncology
- Danielle (62 years old, white female): Manger with 22 years experience working in ICU
You have worked on projects with Danielle and David, but have never worked with the others. No one else on the team has experience working with each other, and you have been given a very tight deadline to get this project completed.
Directions
Read the scenario above and research the five stages of team development using your textbook, the Argosy University Online Library, and/or the Internet. In this assignment, you are to generate a team development plan that addresses the challenges faced by a culturally and generationally diverse team. Discuss what should occur in each stage and when you, as the team leader, should move the group to the next stage of team development. Generate a 4- to 6-page team development plan in which the following are addressed:
- Analyze at least 5 major problems that may result from having a culturally and generationally diverse team as listed in the above scenario.
- Discuss the five stages of team development.
- Given the 5 identified problems, how do you as team leader move the team members through each of the five stages?
Make sure you use scholarly research throughout to support your ideas; write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Submission Details:
- By the due date assigned, post your responses to the Submissions Area. Support your findings with examples and scholarly references. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M3_A2.doc.
Grading:
| Grading Criteria | Maximum Points |
| Analyzed at least 5 major problems that may result from having a culturally and generationally diverse team as listed in the above scenario. | 80 |
| Discussed the five stages of team development. | 36 |
| Given the 5 identified problems, discussed how you would move the teams through the five stages of team development. | 36 |
| Writing Standards | |
| Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in appropriate and accurate representation and attribution of sources; and displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation. APA format was used. | 48 |
| Total: | 200 |
Explanation & Answer
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Challenges faced by a culture and generation diversity team
Seeking for alternative non-narcotic pain management procedures is the desire of many
people in the society. Patients have been subjected to opioids as pain relievers to an extent that
some of them have become addicted and cannot live without these medications, (Shuffler,
Diazgranadbs, Maynard, & Salas, 2018). There are several alternatives including acupuncture
that are now being suggested but there are varied challenges given the nursing staff cultural and
generation diversity that are tasked with implementing these alternatives.
One of the alternatives identified is exercising. In the case a patient is one has been
involved in an accident and has a fracture or such type of injury, it has been established that
exercising with a specialist physical therapist can lead to their restoration slowly by slowly,
(Shuffler,et al, 2018). From the team assembled, only Sarah, Emiyo and maybe Mohammed
would appreciate this procedure while Danielle and David would be indifferent. This is because
of the age factor and they would not appreciate being so much physically involved. In the case of
administering acupuncture as an alternative, most of the team members would appreciate it but
Mohammed being a Muslim would not be for it. This is because of religious customs and beliefs
that do not allow him, (Raes, Kyndt, Decuyper, Van den Bossche, & Dochy, 2015).
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