Influence of Nurses Handover Styles on Selected Patient Safety Indicators | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 64, Volume 13, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 842-885 PDF (485.92 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2022.236593 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Warda Elbastawisy Elbastawisy Ahmed1; Samah Faisal Fakhry2; Fawzia Mohamed Badran3 | ||
| 1B.Sc.in Nursing Administration, Nursing Administration-Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University-Cairo-Egypt. | ||
| 2Professor of Nursing Administration,Nursing Administration-Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University-Cairo-Egypt. | ||
| 3Assistant Professor of Nursing Administration-Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University-Cairo-Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background:An accurate handover of clinical information was of great importance to continuity and safety of care. If clinically relevant information was not shared accurately and in a timely manner it may lead to adverse events, delays in treatment and diagnosis, inappropriate treatment and omission of care. Aims: This study aimed to examine the influence of the three different nurses handover styles on select patient safety indicators. Design: A comparative record-based prospective design was used to carry out this study. Subject and Method: The subjects of this study consist of 130 staff nurses and 6 head nurses at the critical care units of General Mahalla Hospital that affiliated to Ministry of Health Tools Data for this study were collected using three tools, namely, Interview questionnaire for head nurses, an observation checklist (for oral and bedside handover) an audit checklist (for written and bedside handover), and a data abstraction form for the patient safety indicators Results: The staff nurses in the oral group (60%) had adequate application of handover process compared to (87%)of those in the written group and (95.5%) in the bedside group. the most adequate practice of head nurses was in the bedside group (100%) and lowest in the oral group (33.3%). Conclusion: The bedside and written handover styles are better than the oral style in terms of patient safety. Recommendations: The bedside nursing handover style should be the style of choice to be applied whenever possible, Nurses should have regular training in process of handover. Important areas for future research include developing a minimum dataset requirement for handover and the design and development of technological solutions to improve the quality, standardization, and efficiency of handover data. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Nursing handover; Handover styles; Patient safety indicators | ||
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