Team Huddles
A structured, brief (5-15 min) routine (daily or multiple times a day), face-to-face communication of a team’s membership; has been shown to improve patient safety by enhancing teamwork creating standardized communication processes and providing a feeling of shared responsibility.
Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS)
A validated curriculum for teaching interprofessional communication; used with health workers; focuses on five key principles (leadership, situation monitoring, mutual support, communication, and team structure)
Death Cafes for Prevention of Burnout
Informal discussions focusing on death, dying, loss, grief, and illness. They allow for reflection on distressing events and offer community and collaboration among hospital employees outside of work. With Covid-19 limiting social interactions and overloading of ICUs worldwide, their virtual administration provides an innovative strategy to mitigate burnout
Commensality Groups
Commensality Groups are an evidence-based innovation to increase the sense of connection and collegiality among physicians and build comradery and meaning in work. By providing protected time for facilitated small-group discussion, improvements can be made across various dimensions of physician well-being, including meaning, empowerment, and engagement in work and reduction of distress.
Battle Buddies
A psychological resilience intervention founded on a peer support model; involves pairing individuals together based on their clinical areas of practice, responsibilities, experience, seniority, and life circumstances
How to Implement a Peer Support Program During a Crisis
A webinar that covers the importance of peer support, the fundamentals for operationalizing a peer-support program in health systems and practices, and how peer support can potentially change organizational culture – especially during the COVID-19 pandemic
Faculty Support Calls
A program of voluntary and informal 1-hour group support video calls to help medical faculty address their challenges, listen to how they are coping, and describe lessons learned.
Mentorship Program for Medical Students
A support for resident-students/fourth-year medical students (during their 4-week emergency medicine sub internship).
Voices of Duke Health
A listening booth and podcast project that invites Duke Health providers, staff, students, trainees, patients, and visitors to have one-on-one conversations about what is meaningful in your lives, work, and relationships.
Schwartz Rounds
A standardized rounding program designed to openly and honestly discuss social and emotional issues that health workers face in caring for patients and families.
Balint 2.0: A Virtual Balint Group for Doctors Around the World
A Balint group is a purposeful, regular meeting among family physicians, with a trained facilitator or leader, to allow discussion of any topic that occupies a physician's mind outside of his or her usual clinical encounters.
#2022 Healthcare Workforce Rescue Package
Evidence-based actions that can support healthcare team member well-being. The first-of-its-kind list prioritizes five critical actions leaders can take now to safeguard the emotional and psychological needs of healthcare workers