Tuckman's Theory of Stages

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This paper discusses nursing team orientation according to Tuckman's theory of stages. The paper describes the theory and shows how it provides us with an ideal framework through which to understand the organizational design contributing to the effective management of a group in a hospital facility. The paper then looks briefly at how understanding this theory has helped the writer in her profession.

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"And indeed, Tuckman's Theory has helped to demonstrate a clear path for me to better understand the dynamics of group behavior, even within such a distinctly complex context as the hospital. The nursing team is by necessity dynamic and is demanded to approach multiple responsibilities in simultaneity. This means that it must have many moving parts as it were, all of them capable of meeting the tasks large and small upon which patient's life may very well depend. Therefore, I must attribute to Tuckman's theory an invaluable and raised awareness as to those inevitable experiences which must be engaged if a staff is to become a team."

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