Poster Presentation: This Couldn’t Have Been an Email: The Benefits of a Daily Team Huddle

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Research focuses on the value of engaging in self-reflective and collaborative practice as a child life professional. This poster presentation describes the way one child life team collaborated, researched, and implemented an adaptation of a system-wide huddle policy based on the known needs of their specific department to foster team collaboration, enhance team cohesion, and create a sense of accountability by engaging in vulnerability to better meet hospital wide psychosocial needs.

Learning Objectives:

Describe the importance of a daily team huddle within the healthcare workplace environment.

Identify goals of a daily child life team huddle.

Learn about the creation, implementation, and evaluation of a daily team huddle at this author’s institution.

Identify steps towards implementation of a daily team huddle unique to their child life program/department.

1 PDU
Suggested Domain: Professional Responsibility

Hailey Simpson

Certified Child Life Specialist

This speaker graduated with a masters degree from The University of Georgia, and completed her Child Life Clinical Internship at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta in Cardiology and Inpatient Oncology. Following completion of her internship, she was hired as the Certified Child Life Specialist for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Egleston. For the past four years, she has worked in the NICU focusing her day-to-day efforts on meeting the developmental and psychosocial needs of infants and their families. Throughout her career this speaker has focused her efforts on increasing support for hospitalized infants by advocating on their behalf to meet their needs specifically within the realm of procedural support and end of life care.

Stephanie Whitten

MS, CCLS

The University of Alabama & Southern New Hampshire University

Stephanie Whitten is an adjunct instructor at the University of Alabama and academic advisor for Southern New Hampshire University. Her educational background includes a Bachelor's of Science degree and Master's of Science degree in Human Development and Family Studies with an emphasis in Child Life from the University of Alabama. Stephanie has been a Certified Child Life Specialist (CCLS) for almost nine years, which includes her time as a Child Life Specialist II at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Her clinical experience spans across oncology, neurology, and emergency/trauma populations and settings. Stephanie recently left the clinical setting to expand on her career in higher education where she enjoys applying her experiences as a clinical CCLS and helping her students learn and grow.