
Implementing Nursing Safety Huddles for a Long-Term Care Facility: A Quality Improvement Initiative
Background: Ineffective communication between staff will adversely affect teamwork and patient safety. An essential skill of the healthcare profession is effective communication.
Local problem: Among the staff at a local long-term care facility, there is a need to improve teamwork and communication. Nevertheless, there is no evidence-based practice or practice of patient safety huddles.
Methods: In this quality improvement project, quantitative data collection included the TeamSTEPPS® Attitudes (TQAS) and Perceptions (TQPS) surveys pre- and post-intervention. Lewin’s Change model guided this project’s development, implementation, and evaluation. Interventions: Following stakeholder support, TeamSTEPPS® education, and huddle execution, the project occurred over eight weeks. Huddle agenda and attendance logs were collected weekly. TeamSTEPPS® pre-and-post questionnaires on team structure, communication, leadership situation monitoring, and mutual support with a 5-point Likert Scale of strongly agree (5) to strongly disagree (1) were used to evaluate this quality improvement project.
Results: Data analysis revealed no variation in attitude or perception after implementing the intervention of utilizing team huddles during shift change.
Conclusions: Even though the results of this quality improvement project did not show any improvement, evidence suggests that sustainability will have positive outcomes since huddles will enhance communication and teamwork, increase job satisfaction, and decrease staff turnover.
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Work Title | Implementing Nursing Safety Huddles for a Long-Term Care Facility: A Quality Improvement Initiative |
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Publication Date | February 13, 2024 |
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Deposited | February 13, 2024 |
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