Game On!
Game On Activities are hands-on exercises designed to help interprofessional teams build teamwork, communication,
and collaboration skills across healthcare disciplines, with effective teamwork being
essential in today's healthcare environment. As you’ve seen from teams you've led
or been part of, a new team doesn’t perform exceptionally without proper training,
and as the facilitator, you play a key role in helping learners understand and implement
team competencies. When planned and executed strategically, these experiential learning
activities can unite learners, strengthen skills, and address weaknesses. It's important
to define your goals and purposes when selecting and implementing activities, considering
how they can be tailored to specific skills, competencies, or learners, with each
request including supplies, a facilitator guide, and a learner rule card.
Step 1: Choose a category from the list below that aligns with your learning objectives and
the level of your learners.
Step 2: Complete the request form at the end of this page.
Step 3: We will match you with an appropriate activity and contact you to arrange a pick-up
or drop-off time.
- Assembles team and identifies team members’ roles and responsibilities
- Holds team members accountable
- Includes patients and families as part of the team
- Provides brief, clear, specific and timely information
- Seeks information from all available sources
- Uses check-backs to verify communicated information
- Uses SBAR, call-outs, check-backs and handoff techniques to communicate effectively with team members
- Monitors the state of the patient
- Monitors fellow team members to ensure safety and prevent errors
- Monitors the environment for safety and availability of resources (e.g., equipment)
- Monitors progress toward the goal and identifies changes that could alter the care plan
- Fosters communication to ensure a shared mental model
- Identifies goals and vision
- Utilizes resources to maximize team performance
- Balances workload within the team
- Delegates tasks or assignments, as appropriate
- Conducts briefs, huddles and debriefs
- Models teamwork behaviors
- Provides task-related support and assistance
- Provides timely and constructive feedback to team members
- Effectively advocates for the patient using the Assertive Statement, Two-Challenge Rule or CUS
- Uses the Two-Challenge Rule or DESC script to resolve conflict
