At shift change, incoming and outgoing nurses transfer accountability by exchanging information about the patients under their charge. Called bedside handover, this process empowers patients and ...
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 ...
Hospitals are transforming the traditional way nurses change shifts to reduce the chance of errors and improve patients' feeling of safety. Beverley Johnson of the Institute for ...