Bedside handover also allows patients to ask questions and clarify information with both nurses -- which is shown to relieve anxiety and improve patient satisfaction. "Most patients felt safer, more ...

When incoming and outgoing nurses actively involve their patients in shift changes--a practice known as bedside handover--it can reduce medical errors and improve outcomes and patient experience, ...

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 ...

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 ...