Group Thinking and Brainstorming

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My experience working as a team while interning as a nurse at a local hospital was great. I got to practically understand the importance of teamwork, especially when working in a multidisciplinary field like healthcare. The collaboration between other nurses, physicians, and specialists was important because it led to patient satisfaction, improved outcomes, and higher job satisfaction for me due to the high engagement with coworkers. I also developed good interpersonal communication skills during my time working at the hospital.
I experienced group thinking for the first time while interning at the hospital; the team conducted a meeting to decide what the team should do regarding a patient whose health worsened due to a misdiagnosis by a nurse. During the meeting, only two members came up with the decision on what to do. These two members dominated the meeting, and there was no room for others, including me, to express my thoughts and beliefs at that time. Conformity and compliance were great factors that led to group thinking in this situation. I changed my attitudes and behavior to fit into the group of professional healthcare; for the other members, the compliance factor played a role since they had to go with the voice of the dominant members; it was an indirect request to agree with the decision. Group thinking influenced the decision of the team because conformity always influences supreme (Hodges, 2017). The team made sacrifices to simply agree to the decision without voicing their beliefs to get along with the others and mai...