Team Building Week

Before beginning this unit, I expected to learn how I can become a better team player.  I have learned that it is not nearly as much fun working on a paper as it is to be participating in an in class activity of team building with my classmates.  I learned that it is important to step back and let other people and their opinions be expressed.  There is more than one way to accomplish a task and the other opinions may be better than my own.

My feelings about the class activity was that it is not even close to the same when doing it outside of the normal class activity on campus.  As someone that has participated in this a couple of times now, I think that you are able to learn quite a bit more from activities such as those like this week than in normal class or anything online.  I would even say that if it is to be online, it should also be required to be online at the same time.

I will be able to apply the things learned from this week to my nursing practice by making sure that I'm an active listener, leader, and follower, depending on the times that each is needed.  I need to think about other opinions, instead of only looking at my own.  I will work to gain my co-workers trust and help them to know that they can rely on me.

I feel like this past week taught me a lot about myself and my team members.  I learned that we all have strengths and weakness.  We can put our coworkers in areas where they shine and help them to make their weakness strong.  Overall, I have to say that I wish I could have been there for the in class activity.