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

Author(s)

Marina Peduzzi ^[1] ; Heloise Lima Fernandes Agreli ; Jaqueline Alcântara Marcelino da Silva ^[3] ; Helton Saragor de Souza ^[4]

Affiliation

^[1] Universidade de São Paulo. Escola de Enfermagem. Departamento de Orientação Profissional - Brasil

^[3] Universidade Federal de São Carlos. Departamento de Enfermagem - Brasil

^[4] Universidade Federal de São Paulo. Campus Baixada Santista. Departamento de Políticas Públicas e Saúde Coletiva - Brasil

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Trab. educ. saúde (Online); v. 18, 2020-03-16.

Abstract

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. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 16/14975-1 - Analysis of teamwork and its relationship with satisfaction of practitioners and users' satisfaction with the quality of care in primary care services in São Paulo
• Grantee: MARINA PEDUZZI
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Research in Public Policies for the National Health Care System (PP-SUS)