Team Huddle Implementation in a General Pediatric Clinic

Abstract

Teamwork and communication are critical to ensure safe and quality patient care. However, the ability to affect these constructs within well-established healthcare settings is challenging. Using a quality improvement approach, staff development educators collaborated with clinical nursing staff to implement a daily team huddle. When incorporated into the workflow, a team huddle can promote communication and positively influence how teams function within a clinical area.(See CE Video, Supplemental Digital Content 1, http://links.lww.com/JNPD/A9).

Implementation of Situational Awareness in the Pediatric Oncology Setting. Does a ‘huddle’ Work and Is it Sustainable?

“…Loss of situational awareness, in high-risk areas such as healthcare is one of the most frequent causes of inferior clinical consequences (Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, 2015-2016; Brock et al, 2013;Fore & Sculli, 2013). Therefore, the promotion of situational awareness via huddles can help increase influence and increase communication within healthcare settings, creating a safer environment for children and their families (Kellish, Smith-Miller, Ashton, & Rodgers, 2015).…”

Huddles and their effectiveness at the frontlines of clinical care: a scoping review

“…Only 9 studies (5.7%), all from the quantitative peer-reviewed literature, used a comparison group design. 38,49,87,90,115,121,138,141,162 Nearly half of all studies (N=75) were analytic observational, 1 , 2 3 , 2 6 , 2 8 , 3 1 , 3 4 , 3 7 , 4 1 , 4 6 -4 8 , 5 0 , 5 1 , 5 5 , 5 8 -6 1 , 6 7 , 7 1 , 7 134,137,140,142,143,[146][147][148]150,153,[157][158][159][160][161]163,[166][167][168]170,172 34.2% (N=54) were experimental or quasi-experimental, 8,11,27,29,32,33,35,38,42,43,45,49,[51][52][53]56,65,70,…”

“…The first study meeting eligibility criteria was published in 2004; 11 the majority (71.5%; N=113) were published between 2014 and 2019. 8,9,21,22,25,27,[30][31][32][34][35][36][37]39,[41][42][43][44][47][48][49]51,53,[56][57][58]62,63,65,[67][68][69][70]72,74,76,77,79,81,83,85,87,89,90,[92][93][94]96,97,[99][100]…”

Implementing team huddles in small rural hospitals: How does the Kotter model of change apply?

“…Team huddles can improve patient safety by strengthening the safety culture and sustaining high reliability (Provost et al 2015). In a variety of healthcare settings, team huddles have been shown to help improve team communication and performance (Glymph et al 2015, Kellish et al 2015, Martin et al 2015, Rodriguez et al 2015, Donnelly et al 2016, efficiency of care (Hughes Driscoll & El Metwally 2014, Jain et al 2015 and staff satisfaction (Martin et al 2015, Jain et al 2015. However, the implementation of team huddles is not always effective (e.g.…”