Quit Taking It Personally: Team Engagement and Improvement through Huddles

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Quit Taking It Personally: Team Engagement and Improvement through Huddles

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Kerista Hansell, MSN, RN, CNS-BC, C-EFM, IBCLC , Nursing, Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, IN
Erin M. Kirby, MSN, MBA, RNC-OB , Labor and Delivery, Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, IN

Discipline: Childbearing (CB), Professional Issues (PI), Women’s Health (WH)

Learning Objectives:
  • 1.Review structures and processes that promote collaborative communication and influence patient outcomes
  • 2.List key elements in the adoption of maternal hemorrhage team debrief form and process
  • 3.Describe the influence of team huddles on engagement in quality improvement

    • Submission Description:
    A Midwestern academic health center reduced postpartum hemorrhage and improved patient safety using recognized best practices, communication structures, standardized procedures, and a comprehensive risk assessment as a part of an evidence-based toolkit. Key to engagement and collaboration was the use of an immediate interdisciplinary team debrief huddle. The result was a reduction in the rate of hemorrhage by 49 percent over 10 quarters.

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