Bedside Shift Report: Potential Challenges

Potential Challenges

As with any change, some nursing staff member is resistant to bedside shift report. Keep in that taking on new behaviors can be challenging for all of these challenges, it is important to let nurses know that bedside shift report is an expectation ,not an option . Nursing leadership and management need to hold staff acceptable for conducting bedside shift report. Some example of challenge and way to address are:-

• Unknown visitors or family in the room
• New diagnosis or information patient is not yet aware of (e.g., waiting for doctor to discuss)
• Patient is asleep
• Patient is noncompliant and you need to share information with oncoming nurse