Know Your Care Team - test

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Getting to know your health care team helps you get
the best care possible.
The members of your health care team include:
• You
• Family or friends, as you wish
• Different types of doctors and nurses
• Other clinical providers and hospital staff

When they enter your room, all hospital staff should tell you their name, what their role is, and what they do. If you don’t know who someone is or why he or she is in your room, ask.

You and your family or friends
You are part of your health care team. Doctors and
nurses may know more about medicine, but you are the expert on you.

Your family and friends can be a part of your health
care team, if you like. At [insert hospital name], families and friends are not visitors but are part of your health care team. They can give you comfort and support. They also can tell your doctors and nurses about your needs and concerns.