layout: true background-image: url(../../images/slide_background.jpg) background-size: cover class: middle --- # Being part of a team ### Medium Quotes --- ### “If it’s a team, if everyone works together, then if there’s a bad outcome, it’s like the whole practice has failed rather than the individual involved.” --- ### “… job satisfaction is coming home knowing that my team have had a good day, my team have had good wins or I‘ve solved a problem or helped one of my colleagues to work through an issue whether that’s clinical, personal or professional in any way.” --- ### “I know that not having the mechanisms in place and turning to things like alcohol to make you relax and forget is the wrong coping mechanism so since then I’ve learned things like mindfulness and talking and listening to others as well so that you don’t feel as alone. But it has to be someone who understands, nice to have someone in the team who is going to listen, is not going to judge – a problem shared is a problem halved as they say.” --- ### “I think having someone supportive and someone who understands but who will just listen to you – offload some of the negativity that you’re feeling and get it out of your system. So, I feel a lot better now because I’ve got rid of that and someone understands me. I think in your practice or team there should be a go-to person (or several) who you can go and talk to.” --- ### “The benefits of being in a mixed practice is that you are back at the practice and you’re seeing the other vets and can chat about cases and things but in a large animal only practice, you might not see any other vets at all and yes, you can phone them but ….. you can just send a picture and like “look at this, I did this last night and what do you reckon?” … and we found it useful.” --- ### “… the team spirit between the vets. In our practice we have a slightly different feeling – being a mixed practice so I’d spend a lot of time with the nurses as well but the on the farm animal side – it was that team of vets who make it or break it.” --- ### “we’ve got WhatsApp groups and if someone has done a really tough job either they will post it or someone else will say I heard you did this, well done. So, they’re feeling recognised and part of the club and we all understand what that meant” --- ### “When I’m having a good team at work, able to spend time at work and outside work with my teammates and that involves having discussions and regular meetings at work so everyone knows where we’re at, where we’re heading and that gives me job satisfaction.” --- ### “Failures and mistakes… we missed a pregnancy and coming back we talked through it with the team here. We have a very supportive team that we can go back to and say, this has happened and asking for experiences so that I can align what I do going forward with everybody else and having support” --- ### “some people saying yes to older castration that others weren’t comfortable with so we came back, raised it at our group meeting and came up with a protocol that is a group decision to say no castration over 12 months so everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet.” --- ### “I’ll be annoyed and I’ll usually come in to the office and speak to my colleagues or I’ll ring them on the phone – I’ve phoned my boss before coming back from a torsion or twisted and the calf was swollen and I still couldn’t get it out and I couldn’t operate on her so I rang my boss and said what could I have done differently, what could I learn from this” --- ### “We have our WhatsApp group and you can send messages through and it doesn’t matter if it’s 3.00 in the morning or 3.00 in the afternoon, usually someone will have picked that up by 6.00 in the morning.” --- ### “For me it was always knowing I had someone on the end of a phone. Acknowledging the fact that I could always call and say I don’t know what I’m doing and be a bit worried that this situation is happening.” --- ### “It’s a very individual experience – I have colleagues who have something go wrong and they’ll just go “Urgh!”, and I have colleagues who will have something go wrong and they’ll want to jump off a bridge. We have a weekly vet meeting and sometimes we talk about clinical cases and that can be slightly helpful” --- ### “I usually go and have a chat with someone about it. I’ve been lucky in all the practices I’ve worked in, there’s always been someone to discuss cases with. Don’t always come up with a solution! But it’s always good to talk about these things. That’s very important.” --- ### “I’m two years into this current job so I don’t have a real long term relationship with these farmers whereas some of my colleagues have been here 5, 10 years – the bosses really know them. So, in those situations, I’d go and chat with one of my senior colleagues who maybe know the chap far more personally than I do and I’d go and have a chat with them -see what they think.” --- ### “A lot of the time, in this job, having good colleagues and good bosses who will support you if you had a really bad night on call and no sleep and who will take up the slack a bit if you’ve had no sleep – so I’ve done that a few times with my colleagues, they’ve said, “go home, take a half day, we’ll manage. If it really goes bad, we’ll call you back but please just go home and get some sleep”. --- ### “The benefits of being in a mixed practice is that you are back at the practice and you’re seeing the other vets and can chat about cases and things but in a large animal only practice, you might not see any other vets at all and yes, you can phone them… (WhatsAPP) was useful in my previous job because it created that, you can just send a picture and like “look at this, I did this last night and what do you reckon?” … and we found it useful.”