title: The Huddle: It's Not Just for Football Anymore.
abstract: Huddles are a wonderful team-building tool to enhance team function and efficiency. The Institute of Medicine (2011) report, The Future of Nursing--Leading Change, Advancing Health, identifies the need for collaborative healthcare teams. This is based on 14 years of research and evidence. Creating a team culture is identified as being essential to delivering high-quality patient care. Huddles are easy to complete and don't cost anything but a few minutes that are well worth their while! It's not often we get an opportunity to do so much with so little. So, 1, 2, 3, Hut; let's all go Huddle!
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dutka
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000592:standards*; D061214:Patient Safety; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States