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Motivation/Insight Question 4
How would you handle working with other healthcare professionals, such as doctors?
Excellent Candidate Response
I would enjoy working collaboratively with other healthcare professionals. In order to provide holistic care to patients, it is important to have input from different specialities and departments. For example, if a patient is arriving at the Accident and Emergency department, in addition to physician associates there will be a team of paramedics, A&E nurses, emergency medicine doctors, anaesthetists, radiologists and healthcare assistants, who will collectively be responsible for treating the patient. In order for this to succeed, members must have effective team working skills, such as being able to listen to and appreciate the ideas of other members and use everyone’s expertise to come to an informed decision. I feel that my experience of working in the hospitality industry has prepared me for working in a team in this profession.
For instance, for the last three years I have been employed by a recruitment company, in which I have worked at numerous events around the UK. At these events, I have acted as waiting staff, serving food and other amenities to event attendees. As these events were often extremely busy, with there being hundreds of customers, it was imperative that my co-workers and I were able to work together, to ensure customers were being served as quickly as possible. I learned that the key to good service was delegation of roles – whilst I would work behind the till, other members of my team would make the food and deliver them to the customers, and communicate with the kitchen staff if we were running out during peak times. Although this job was at times stressful, because of the continual high volume of customers, it was certainly a bonding experience, and made me appreciate the importance of good teamwork.
I would enjoy working collaboratively with other healthcare professionals. In order to provide holistic care to patients, it is important to have input from different specialities and departments. For example, if a patient is arriving at the Accident and Emergency department, in addition to physician associates there will be a team of paramedics, A&E nurses, emergency medicine doctors, anaesthetists, radiologists and healthcare assistants, who will collectively be responsible for treating the patient. In order for this to succeed, members must have effective team working skills, such as being able to listen to and appreciate the ideas of other members and use everyone’s expertise to come to an informed decision. I feel that my experience of working in the hospitality industry has prepared me for working in a team in this profession.
For instance, for the last three years I have been employed by a recruitment company, in which I have worked at numerous events around the UK. At these events, I have acted as waiting staff, serving food and other amenities to event attendees. As these events were often extremely busy, with there being hundreds of customers, it was imperative that my co-workers and I were able to work together, to ensure customers were being served as quickly as possible. I learned that the key to good service was delegation of roles – whilst I would work behind the till, other members of my team would make the food and deliver them to the customers, and communicate with the kitchen staff if we were running out during peak times. Although this job was at times stressful, because of the continual high volume of customers, it was certainly a bonding experience, and made me appreciate the importance of good teamwork.