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WGU D048 Learning Checks Exam
Questions With 100% Correct Answers.
What is an essential component of collaborative team success?
- Singular leadership.
- The ability to overcome personal differences.
- Equal generational representation.
- Role similarities. - Answer✔The ability to overcome personal differences.
Model Concept
T: Think Before You Speak
A: Assert Yourself
L: Listen to Others
K: Konnect with Everyone - Answer✔Suggested Strategy
- Apply Socrates' Triple Filter Test.
- Apply B.I.F.A - Behavior Impact Feeling Action
- Apply the S.I.L.E.N.T. principles.
- Apply V.A.K. - Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic
Collaborative Barrier
- Different mindsets
- Internal competitiveness
- Information hoarding
- Organizational silos
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- Poor listening skills - Answer✔Suggested Solution
- Help your teammates to feel psychologically safe.
- Reward behaviors that demonstrate collaborative values.
- Minimize the siloing of information systems and data records.
- Ensure that people can communicate directly with others rather than through a chain of
command.
- Keep an open mind and reserve judgment.
Which collaborative barrier is addressed through the establishment of open, interpersonal
communication across a healthcare team?
- A lack of respect and trust.
- A lack of alignment around goals.
- Knowledge deficits.
- Physical separation. - Answer✔A lack of respect and trust.
Monochromatic - Answer✔Measurement of outcomes is consistently linked to time frames.
A highly functioning interdisciplinary health team leverages each member's ______________.
Knowledge.
Cooperation.
Credibility.
Strengths. - Answer✔Strengths.
SWOT Analysis term
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Opportunities
- Threats - Answer✔Assessment question
- What does your team do well?
- What factors are eroding your team's success?
- What options do your strengths open up for your team?
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- What risks do your team weaknesses expose you to?
Which action demonstrates collaboration?
- Involving everyone in all decisions
- Clarifying roles in an interdisciplinary team
- Assigning a hierarchical structure
- Avoiding conflict - Answer✔Clarifying roles in an interdisciplinary team
Which behavior is a barrier to collaborative work in an interdisciplinary team?
- Recommending information sharing
- Encouraging competition
- Resolving conflict
- Promoting diversity - Answer✔Encouraging competition
What should be used to support effective communication about patient care during an
interdisciplinary team meeting?
- Electronic health record (EHR)
- Care map
- Plan of care
- Standardized communication tools - Answer✔Standardized communication tools
Which is a method to manage conflict among group members in an interdisciplinary team?
- Follow a rigid scheduled
- Identify differing expectations
- Ignore differences in opinion
- Change the subject - Answer✔Identify differing expectations
Successful collaborative health care teams capitalize on the group's ______________
intelligence.
Individual.
Cognitive.
Experiential.
Collective. - Answer✔Collective.
Barriers to successful collaborative health care teams increase the potential for ______________
and decrease quality of care.
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Silos.
Diversity.
Errors.
Conflict. - Answer✔Errors.
Which characteristic of a team would encourage individuals to consider a variety of solutions
when working together?
- Homogeneous team composition.
- Aggressive deadlines.
- Cultural diversity.
- Shared goals. - Answer✔Cultural diversity.
A barrier to the sharing of expertise within a health care team is the tendency to not speak up and
contribute something new due to the ______________ knowledge effect.
Disciplinary
Individual
Collective
Common - Answer✔Common
When all members of a collaborative health care team feel confident, respected, and inspired, the
group has achieved _____________.
Normalization
Inclusion
Diversity
Equality - Answer✔Inclusion
Which action should a team leader take when evaluating the strengths of a team member?
- Assign goals based on weaknesses for the opportunity to learn
- Assign goals based on competencies
- Assign goals to those who have knowledge in the subject matter
- Focus on known strengths - Answer✔Assign goals based on competencies
What can the team leader do to promote inclusivity among group members during a meeting?
- Ask each member to submit talking points for the team leader to present.
- Invite the same team members to each meeting for consistency.
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WGU D048 Learning Checks Exam
Questions With 100% Correct Answers.
What is an essential component of collaborative team success?
- Singular leadership.
- The ability to overcome personal differences.
- Equal generational representation.
- Role similarities. - Answer✔The ability to overcome personal differences.
Model Concept
T: Think Before You Speak
A: Assert Yourself
L: Listen to Others
K: Konnect with Everyone - Answer✔Suggested Strategy
- Apply Socrates' Triple Filter Test.
- Apply B.I.F.A - Behavior Impact Feeling Action
- Apply the S.I.L.E.N.T. principles.
- Apply V.A.K. - Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic
Collaborative Barrier
- Different mindsets
- Internal competitiveness
- Information hoarding
- Organizational silos
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- Poor listening skills - Answer✔Suggested Solution
- Help your teammates to feel psychologically safe.
- Reward behaviors that demonstrate collaborative values.
- Minimize the siloing of information systems and data records.
- Ensure that people can communicate directly with others rather than through a chain of
command.
- Keep an open mind and reserve judgment.
Which collaborative barrier is addressed through the establishment of open, interpersonal
communication across a healthcare team?
- A lack of respect and trust.
- A lack of alignment around goals.
- Knowledge deficits.
- Physical separation. - Answer✔A lack of respect and trust.
Monochromatic - Answer✔Measurement of outcomes is consistently linked to time frames.
A highly functioning interdisciplinary health team leverages each member's ______________.
Knowledge.
Cooperation.
Credibility.
Strengths. - Answer✔Strengths.
SWOT Analysis term
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Opportunities
- Threats - Answer✔Assessment question
- What does your team do well?
- What factors are eroding your team's success?
- What options do your strengths open up for your team?
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- What risks do your team weaknesses expose you to?
Which action demonstrates collaboration?
- Involving everyone in all decisions
- Clarifying roles in an interdisciplinary team
- Assigning a hierarchical structure
- Avoiding conflict - Answer✔Clarifying roles in an interdisciplinary team
Which behavior is a barrier to collaborative work in an interdisciplinary team?
- Recommending information sharing
- Encouraging competition
- Resolving conflict
- Promoting diversity - Answer✔Encouraging competition
What should be used to support effective communication about patient care during an
interdisciplinary team meeting?
- Electronic health record (EHR)
- Care map
- Plan of care
- Standardized communication tools - Answer✔Standardized communication tools
Which is a method to manage conflict among group members in an interdisciplinary team?
- Follow a rigid scheduled
- Identify differing expectations
- Ignore differences in opinion
- Change the subject - Answer✔Identify differing expectations
Successful collaborative health care teams capitalize on the group's ______________
intelligence.
Individual.
Cognitive.
Experiential.
Collective. - Answer✔Collective.
Barriers to successful collaborative health care teams increase the potential for ______________
and decrease quality of care.
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Silos.
Diversity.
Errors.
Conflict. - Answer✔Errors.
Which characteristic of a team would encourage individuals to consider a variety of solutions
when working together?
- Homogeneous team composition.
- Aggressive deadlines.
- Cultural diversity.
- Shared goals. - Answer✔Cultural diversity.
A barrier to the sharing of expertise within a health care team is the tendency to not speak up and
contribute something new due to the ______________ knowledge effect.
Disciplinary
Individual
Collective
Common - Answer✔Common
When all members of a collaborative health care team feel confident, respected, and inspired, the
group has achieved _____________.
Normalization
Inclusion
Diversity
Equality - Answer✔Inclusion
Which action should a team leader take when evaluating the strengths of a team member?
- Assign goals based on weaknesses for the opportunity to learn
- Assign goals based on competencies
- Assign goals to those who have knowledge in the subject matter
- Focus on known strengths - Answer✔Assign goals based on competencies
What can the team leader do to promote inclusivity among group members during a meeting?
- Ask each member to submit talking points for the team leader to present.
- Invite the same team members to each meeting for consistency.
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