NCT05387213

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

Nurse Practitioner Led Implementation of Team Huddles in Long-Term Care Homes During COVID-19

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (actual)
• Sponsor: Toronto Rehabilitation Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Moral Distress
• Job Satisfaction
• Mental Health
• Physical Health
• Support

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Team Huddles	Brief multidisciplinary meeting occurring twice a week for staff working at a LTC home led by a Nurse Practitioner. Huddles focused on discussing resident-care and staff-wellbeing.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-05-14
• Primary completion: 2021-11-01
• Completion: 2021-11-01
• First posted: 2022-05-24
• Last updated: 2022-05-24

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Canada