Sense of Community:
Healthcare teams experience frequent staffing changes due to the ongoing
training and rotation of staff in different hospitals, particularly
among doctors in training48. One important finding of
our review is that the implementation of a daily huddle improved
teamwork by facilitating team members to communicate with each other
in-person on a daily basis. This has been shown in the literature to be
a specific intervention that improves multidisciplinary
teamwork21. The huddle allows multidisciplinary teams
to raise safety incidents, to address staffing gaps, and to outline the
goals of care for each patient effectively and collaboratively.
Frequently used terms in the conclusions of the studies included in our
review included ‘practice climate’, ‘working environments’, and
‘teamwork attitudes’. The huddle brought the team together on a daily
basis to remind them of their overall team goal – to improve the health
and wellbeing of their patients collectively. This heightened sense of
community has a positive impact on the overall satisfaction of employees
and empowered them to work more productively and efficiently as a
team.20