TORONTO, Nov. 20, 2013 – At shift change, incoming and outgoing nurses transfer accountability by exchanging information about the patients under their charge. Called bedside handover, this process ...
Michelle Gray recalls from her years as a critical-care nurse that many patients and their families had no idea what was going on with their care. She realized that lack of information made being in ...
A new study suggests that performing the process of transferring accountability between incoming and outgoing nurses during shift change at patients’ bedside can not only reduces potential errors but ...