Nurse Practitioner Led Implementation of Team Huddles in Long-Term Care Homes

Toronto Rehabilitation Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Moral Distress; Physical Health; Mental Health; Job Satisfaction; Support

Treatments: Behavioral: Team Huddles

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05387213

20-6298

Details and patient eligibility

About

A pre-experimental design to conduct a process evaluation and to compare the outcomes after implementing team huddles for the intervention and control groups.

Full description

Staff working in long-term care (LTC) homes during COVID-19 frequently reported lack of communication, collaboration, and teamwork, all of which are associated with staff dissatisfaction, health concerns, perceived of lack of support and moral distress. The purpose of this study was to introduced regular huddles, led by a Nurse Practitioner, to support LTC staff during COVID-19. The objectives were to evaluate the process of huddle implementation and to examine differences between staff attending and not attending the huddles on outcomes of moral distress, job satisfaction, perceived support from the Nurse Practitioner, and health and mental health. Furthermore, we hypothesize that regular huddles can lead to improvements in resident-centred care and resident outcomes.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All staff working at the LTC home
• All residents living in the home between January and December 2021

Exclusion criteria

• N/A

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

Huddle attendees

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this arm participated in huddles

Treatment:

Behavioral: Team Huddles

Huddle non-attendees

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in this arm did not participate in huddles