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Standardizing The Bedside Shift Report: Improving Nurse-To-Nurse Communication, Deepi Sahota
Standardizing The Bedside Shift Report: Improving Nurse-To-Nurse Communication, Deepi Sahota
Master's Projects and Capstones
PROBLEM: The Community Living Center (CLC) reveals an immense concern on shift-to-shift handoff report. Shift-to-shift report is done in the report room, often times unclear information is given and critical information is not appropriately conveyed.
CONTEXT: The project was implemented on a 50-bed unit at the Veterans Affairs. The improvement project was focused on collaborative partnerships, standardized bedside shift report, and utilization of the SBAR tool. in the prevention of communication errors.
INTERVENTIONS: The SBAR tool was utilized to provide a framework for effective communication between nurses. The CNL facilitated an hour in-service on bedside shift report to nurses …