Sample Team Contract
This agreement, made on _________________, is a non-legally binding agreement made among the members of the ________________________ Team of the _______________________ Department/Unit. By signing this contract, we declare that we are committed to working together as a team to provide the best service we can to our patients and other customers, and that we define how we will work together as follows:
1. We agree to respect the needs of patients as well as all other customers and to share the responsibility to meet those needs.
2. We acknowledge that we are customers to each other, and as such we share responsibility for meeting each other’s needs.
3. We agree to build and maintain healthy working relationships with other team members in order to enhance our own job satisfaction.
4. We agree to respect and value the individuality and confidentiality of our patients as well as each other.
5. We agree to share workload to the extent that it is possible and acknowledge each member’s need to be a fully participating member of the team.
6. We encourage the sharing of ideas for improvement among team members as well as with coworkers who may not be members of the team.
7. We agree that the patient is the ultimate focus of all that we do.
Signatures
Source: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.
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