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    Making the transition to nursing bedside shift reports. A 20-bed inpatient unit transitioned to conducting nursing shift reports at the patient's bedside beginning in June 2009. For the first six months following implementation, there were significant increases in six patient satisfaction scores related to nursing care, with scores increasing at least 8.7 points and rankings rising to over the 90th percentile compared to similar units. However, longer term results showed subsequent declines and substantial month-to-month variation. Extensive planning, training and gradual implementation helped smooth the transition to bedside shift reports despite some initial resistance. Based on this pilot study, all inpatient nursing units across the health system's five hospitals adopted bedside shift reports.

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    Making the transition to nursing bedside shift reports. A 20-bed inpatient unit transitioned to conducting nursing shift reports at the patient's bedside beginning in June 2009. For the first six months following implementation, there were significant increases in six patient satisfaction scores related to nursing care, with scores increasing at least 8.7 points and rankings rising to over the 90th percentile compared to similar units. However, longer term results showed subsequent declines and substantial month-to-month variation. Extensive planning, training and gradual implementation helped smooth the transition to bedside shift reports despite some initial resistance. Based on this pilot study, all inpatient nursing units across the health system's five hospitals adopted bedside shift reports.

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    Making the Transition to Nursing Bedside

    Shift Reports
    Authors: Wakefield, Douglas S.; Ragan, Roland; Brandt, Julie; Tregnago, Megan
    Source: Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Volume 38, Number 6,
    June 2012 , pp. 243-253(11)
    Publisher: Joint Commission Resources

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    Abstract:
    Background: For hospitalized patients, shift handoffs between the offgoing and oncoming
    nurses, as represented in nurse shift reports, must include all critical information about a
    patient's plan of care, and that information must be well communicated. Few studies have
    provided the longitudinal results of the transition to bedside shift reports, and most of the data
    concern relatively short follow-up periods. A 20-bed inpatient nursing unit in a Midwestern
    academic health center made the transition to conducting nursing shift reports at the patient's
    bedside.
    Methods: Preparatory work for designing the bedside shift report process, which began in
    February 2009, included examining baseline patient satisfaction scores, reviewing the
    existing shift report processes, and identifying potential barriers and facilitators in moving to
    bedside shift reports. Unitwide implementation of the new bedside shift report process began

    in June 2009. In the redesigned process, offgoing nurses were required to ask patients to write
    down any questions they would like to ask during the shift report.
    Results: For the first six months following implementation of bedside shift reports, there
    were significant increases in six nurse-specific patient satisfaction scores (scores in- creased
    at least 8.7 points, and percentile rankings increased from the 20th to > the 90th percentile
    when compared with similar nursing units in peer institutions). Longer-term results reflected
    subsequent declines and substantial month-to-month variation.
    Conclusions: Although the transition to bedside shift reports met with some resistance, the
    transition was made smoother by extensive planning, training, and gradual implementation.
    On the basis of this pilot study, the decision was made to adopt bedside shift reports in all
    inpatient nursing units in each of the system's five hospitals.
    Document Type: Research article
    Publication date: 2012-06-01

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