Run the five-minute safety huddle with SBAR
Structure a pharmacy safety huddle using Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation.
The move: end every huddle item with a recommendation. SBAR stands for Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation. It is not just a clinical handoff format. It is a management tool for compressing risk into a decision-ready sentence. Situation tells the team what is live The situation is the current problem or change: a refrigerator alarm, a queue spike, an inventory shortage, a patient complaint, a staffing gap. It should be specific enough that everyone knows what issue is being discussed. Background explains why it matters now Background is not the full history. It is the context needed to make sense…
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