Communication and Care Coordination for the Palliative Care Team : A Handbook for Building and Maintaining Optimal Teams

A focus on intentional communication, team building, and relational maintenanceThis text is designed to help form and maintain palliative care teams that survive and thrive. Whether you are starting a new team or hoping to help an existing team, this text addresses aspects of team players, leadership, meetings, organizational culture, and self- and team-care through a combination of empirical data and real voices from health care professionals in palliative care practice. By focusing on the individual professional in relation to team health and success, this text shows how to develop high quality, high-performing palliative care teams.