Evidence based practice, task 1
EBT 1 -Task 1
Selected Article from a Nursing Journal:
APA Citation:
Bradley, S., & Mott, S. (2010). Handover: Faster and safer? Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 30(1), 23-32
A2. Graphic:
Background Information Traditionally nurses delivered clinical information about the patient, the clinical events on their shift and the plan of care to the oncoming shift to ensure continuity of care and to make sure that their colleagues were informed about tasks or instructions that needed to be completed by the next shift. This process had a variety of names; report, handover or handoff. The format was often different from unit to unit. It usually took place in an off stage room or office or at a charting station from away from the patients. This project aimed to assess if moving nurse to nurse handover to the patient’s bedside could promote safety and decease the length of time that it took to complete the process. The study was designed to evaluate if moving shift handover to the patient’s bedside could lead to more cost effective care and if by reducing the amount of time that nurse were away from the bedside during handover could result in improved patient safety.
Review of Literature When reviewing the literature, the researchers found that while bedside handover was credited to improve communication and patient and staff satisfaction that very little empirical data was available about the economic, cost effective benefits of the process. They discussed the findings of 7 articles that were reviewed and they cited 17 sources that were dated from 1947 to 2009. The oldest citations were related to the change management process and not directly related to bedside handover. Literature review found that the delay in nurses connecting with patients during traditional handover could result in reduced patient safety and in increase in adverse events (Caruso, 2007). Trossman, in an article in The American Nurse in 2009, reported anecdotally that bedside handover
Selected Article from a Nursing Journal:
APA Citation:
Bradley, S., & Mott, S. (2010). Handover: Faster and safer? Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 30(1), 23-32
A2. Graphic:
Background Information Traditionally nurses delivered clinical information about the patient, the clinical events on their shift and the plan of care to the oncoming shift to ensure continuity of care and to make sure that their colleagues were informed about tasks or instructions that needed to be completed by the next shift. This process had a variety of names; report, handover or handoff. The format was often different from unit to unit. It usually took place in an off stage room or office or at a charting station from away from the patients. This project aimed to assess if moving nurse to nurse handover to the patient’s bedside could promote safety and decease the length of time that it took to complete the process. The study was designed to evaluate if moving shift handover to the patient’s bedside could lead to more cost effective care and if by reducing the amount of time that nurse were away from the bedside during handover could result in improved patient safety.
Review of Literature When reviewing the literature, the researchers found that while bedside handover was credited to improve communication and patient and staff satisfaction that very little empirical data was available about the economic, cost effective benefits of the process. They discussed the findings of 7 articles that were reviewed and they cited 17 sources that were dated from 1947 to 2009. The oldest citations were related to the change management process and not directly related to bedside handover. Literature review found that the delay in nurses connecting with patients during traditional handover could result in reduced patient safety and in increase in adverse events (Caruso, 2007). Trossman, in an article in The American Nurse in 2009, reported anecdotally that bedside handover
Bibliography: Bradley, S., & Mott, S. (September 2012). Handover: Faster and safer? Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 30(1), 23-32. Hagman, J., Oman, K., Kleiner, C., Johnson, E., & Nordhagen, J. (2013). Lessons Learned From the Implementation of a Bedside Handoff Model. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 43(6), 315-317. Jeffs, L., Simpson, E., Campbell, H., Irwin, T., Lo, J., Beswick, S., & Cardoso, R. (, January 2, 2013). The Value of Bedside Shift Reporting. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 28(3), 226=232. Maxson, P. M., Derby, K. M., Wrobleski, D. M., & Foss, D. M. (May-June 2012). Bedside Nurse-to-Nurse Handoff Promotes Patient Safety. MedSurg Nursing, Vol. 21/No. 3, 140-145. Source: International Journal of Nursing Practice, 18(), 462-470 Date (year) (2012)