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  • Nurses' Perceived Barriers to Bedside Handover and Their Implication for Clinical Practice

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    Tobiano, Georgia
    Whitty, Jennifer
    Bucknall, Tracey
    Chaboyer, Wendy
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    Chaboyer, Wendy
    Tobiano, Georgia A.
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    2017
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    Background and Rationale: Bedside handover during the change of shift allows nurses to visualize patients and facilitate patient participation, both purported to improve patient safety. But, bedside handover does not always occur and when it does, it may not involve the patient. Aim: To explore and understand barriers nurses perceive in undertaking bedside handover. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was administered to 200 nurses working on medical wards, recruited from two Australian hospitals, one private and one public. As part of the survey, there was one open-ended question asking about perceived barriers to bedside ...
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    Background and Rationale: Bedside handover during the change of shift allows nurses to visualize patients and facilitate patient participation, both purported to improve patient safety. But, bedside handover does not always occur and when it does, it may not involve the patient. Aim: To explore and understand barriers nurses perceive in undertaking bedside handover. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was administered to 200 nurses working on medical wards, recruited from two Australian hospitals, one private and one public. As part of the survey, there was one open-ended question asking about perceived barriers to bedside handover. Content analysis was used to analyze data. Barriers were assessed using a determinant framework. Results: The open-ended question was answered by 176 (88%) participants. Three categories were identified. First, censoring the message showed nurses were concerned about patients and third-parties hearing sensitive information. In the second category, disrupting the communication flow, nurses perceived patients, family members, other nurses and external sources, interrupted the flow of handover and increased its duration. Finally, inhibiting characteristics demonstrated that individual patient and nurse views or capabilities hindered bedside handover. Barriers to bedside handover were determined to relate to individual nurse factors, patient factors, social, political and legal factors, and guideline factors. Linking Evidence to Action: Suggestions for enhancing bedside handover include debunking nurses’ misconceptions, reflecting on nurses’ viewpoints, using active educational approaches, and promotion of legal requirements to heighten nurses’ confidence dealing with sensitive information. Regular patient rounding, and standardized handover may enable patient involvement in handover. Finally, reviewing the local context to ensure organizational processes support bedside handover is recommended.
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    Journal Title
    Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing
    Volume
    14
    Issue
    5
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/wvn.12241
    Copyright Statement
    © 2017 Sigma Theta Tau International. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Nurses' Perceived Barriers to Bedside Handover and Their Implication for Clinical Practice, Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 2017, 14 (5), pp. 343-349, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/wvn.12241. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
    Subject
    Nursing
    Nursing not elsewhere classified
    Science & Technology
    Life Sciences & Biomedicine
    patient participation
    bedside handover
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/401723
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