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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Doctors can learn from nurses’ greater experience of patient handover, according to latest guidance. The Royal College of Physicians last week published a toolkit designed to improve safety during ...

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 ...