I put together a 45-minute, hands-on sepsis huddle drill with three rotating stations and laminated role cards, all run from one rolling cart and a kitchen timer; we used it last Tuesday with 16 new grads and it kept everyone moving and talking. If you want the station scripts, checklists, and debrief prompts, I can share the PDF or help tailor it for night-shift teams — what tweaks have worked in your units?
Tried a similar rolling-cart drill last month, and adding a “runner” role with pre-filled mock sepsis orders plus a QR on the laminated card to the 1-hour bundle (https://www.survivingsepsis.org) made it feel like a pit crew instead of a traffic jam. One caveat: if you’re using a single kitchen timer, set a soft 5‑min chime for the first station so new grads have a cue to trigger cultures/fluids without freezing. I’d love your station scripts to see how you sequence the “three rotating stations” for nights.
One tweak that helped our night shift: we added a whiteboard scribe to mark T0, lactate, fluids, and antibiotics so the debrief has real timestamps, and we swapped the beeping kitchen timer for a phone on vibrate in a pocket since alarms get tuned out at 3 a.m. Your “kept everyone moving and talking” approach also clicked when we tucked a fake penicillin allergy card into one role to force escalation — just use that sparingly or it can bog a fast round.
Kept your 45-minute flow; added a 90-second ‘charting blitz’ after station three — works best with EMR sandbox.