Abstract
<i>Objective</i> To explore the clinical effectiveness of bedside handover sheet and verbal handover note in hepatobiliary surgery. <i>Methods</i> A comparative study was conducted between the bedside handover sheet designed for patients in department of hepatobiliary surgery and verbal handover note. N-A handovers from January to June in 2017 in the Department of First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University were included into the controlled group and N-A handovers from July to December were into the observation group. Handover time, unclear handovers, handover omission and adverse events in the two groups were observed and recorded. <i>Results</i> N-A handover duration in the observation group was 28.1±3.57s and no unclear handover was observed. The occurrence of handover omission and adverse events in the observation group was much lower than that of the controlled group (P<0.05) but nurse satisfaction was much higher. <i>Conclusions</i> Handover sheet of hepatobiliary surgery is of much more advantages than verbal handover note thus are worth of being generalized.
Highlights
Handover is a routine forum of nursing communication at change of shifts, when nurses take breaks and following patient transfers across ward spaces, when a nurse hands over the patient information to another nurse and describes the implemented and needed nursing interventions at the bedside, which can help to improve nursing quality [1, 2]
Handover sheets designed by professional doctors and nurses for patients in the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery according to their clinical characteristics and under the consideration of comprehensive nursing measures were adopted in the observation group
It is shown that the N-A duration of observation group is 28.1±3.57s, which is significantly lower than 35.6±3.24s of controlled group
Summary
Handover is a routine forum of nursing communication at change of shifts, when nurses take breaks and following patient transfers across ward spaces, when a nurse hands over the patient information to another nurse and describes the implemented and needed nursing interventions at the bedside, which can help to improve nursing quality [1, 2]. High-quality bedside handover can effectively reduce nursing error to provide nursing security for the patients. Different hospitals may have different handover styles, which may have different impact on nursing quality. A comparative study between verbal handover note and bedside handover sheet of hepatobiliary surgery was conducted to improve quality of bedside handover and to explore specific handover style fit for different departments
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