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