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Bedside handover enhances completion of nursing care and documentation

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posted on 2013-07-01, 00:00 authored by Debra KerrDebra Kerr, S Lu, L McKinlay
Bedside handover has been proposed as a patient-focused nursing practice model with the potential to reduce adverse events and improve standards of care. This pre-/postintervention study examined changes in completion of nursing care tasks and documentation after the implementation of bedside handover. Analysis of 754 cases revealed significant improvements in several nursing care tasks and documentation, whereas there was no variation in handover duration. Implementing bedside handover may enhance nursing care for hospitalized patients.

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Journal

Journal of nursing care quality

Volume

28

Issue

3

Pagination

217 - 225

Publisher

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Location

Philadelphia, Pa.

ISSN

1057-3631

eISSN

1550-5065

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article; C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

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