Game On!
Game On Activities are hands-on exercises that help interprofessional teams build teamwork, communication, and collaboration skills across healthcare disciplines.
Effective teamwork and communication are essential in today's healthcare environment.
As you know from the teams you have led or belonged to, a new team does not perform
exceptionally without training. As the facilitator, you are key to helping learners
understand and implement team competencies. The experiential learning activities in
this toolkit can be a powerful way to unite learners, develop strengths, and address
weakness, if the activities are planned and carried out strategically. Determine
your purposes and goals for selecting and implementing activities. Consider how activities
can be modified to particular skills, competencies, and/or learners. Each activity
request will include supplies, a facilitator page and a learner rule card.
Step 1: Choose a category from the list below that aligns with your learning objectives and
the level of your learners.
Step 2: Complete the request form at the end of this page.
Step 3: We will match you with an appropriate activity and contact you to arrange a pick-up
or drop-off time.
- Assembles team and identifies team members’ roles and responsibilities
- Holds team members accountable
- Includes patients and families as part of the team
- Provides brief, clear, specific and timely information
- Seeks information from all available sources
- Uses check-backs to verify communicated information
- Uses SBAR, call-outs, check-backs and handoff techniques to communicate effectively with team members
- Monitors the state of the patient
- Monitors fellow team members to ensure safety and prevent errors
- Monitors the environment for safety and availability of resources (e.g., equipment)
- Monitors progress toward the goal and identifies changes that could alter the care plan
- Fosters communication to ensure a shared mental model
- Identifies goals and vision
- Utilizes resources to maximize team performance
- Balances workload within the team
- Delegates tasks or assignments, as appropriate
- Conducts briefs, huddles and debriefs
- Models teamwork behaviors
- Provides task-related support and assistance
- Provides timely and constructive feedback to team members
- Effectively advocates for the patient using the Assertive Statement, Two-Challenge Rule or CUS
- Uses the Two-Challenge Rule or DESC script to resolve conflict
