Table 1 Categories and Sub-categories. The analysis identified four categories that resonated across all participants in the focus group interviews: 1. understanding one’s own role in the huddle; 2. encouraged to speak up; 3. a flexible learning tool; and 4. authentic but not always realistic.
Categories | Sub-categories |
|---|---|
Understanding one’s own role in the huddle | • Clearer picture of how to communicate and cooperate • Insight into what a huddle includes • Proud of own profession and role • Own role is more clear • Collaboration with physicians • Voice as the patient’s advocate |
Encouraged to speak up | • Reduce anxiety and diminish stress • Insecurity about expectation • Assumed the physicians know best • Speak with greater confidence |
A flexible learning tool | • Useful and relevant • Easy to use • Listen to everywhere • Listened to before and after the huddles • Listened to before and during the clinical placement • Used as reassurance |
Authentic but not always realistic | • Ideal versus real life- more in-depth than huddles in practice • Beneficial to outline the patient cases • Starting with ice breaker between the professional groups |