OCTOBER 20238In My OpinionAmalia Cahyaningtyas, Nursing Head Division, Eka Hospital CibuburNursing shift handover is a process of transferring responsibility through communication and transfer of information for providing nursing care by accomplishing the continuity and safety of patient care. Handover between shifts occurs between nurses who have finished carrying out care hours to nurses who will continue care hours. Communication of relevant task information across the shift changes process, thereby ensuring continuity of patient safety and effective working. The transfer of patient health care information about the patient's latest condition, the therapy that has been given, and the next action plan in examination are important points in delivering handovers. Handover activities between shifts reduce the number of patient incidents and increase the quality of nursing services. SBAR method helps outgoing nurses and incoming nurses to communicate and ensure the right information about the patient's condition. SBAR is an acronym for Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation. It provides essential information about patient status points to be conveyed. Bedside handover is beneficial for nurses, patients and family members in increasing the quality and effectiveness of medical care. Patients and the family members are directly involved and feel more cared for. This also increases patient autonomy over the therapy program. (Oxelmark, et al., 2020; Smeulers, Lucas, & Vermeulen, 2014). Some of the barriers to handover implementation between nurses' shifts arise with nurses who have not consistently implemented the SBAR method. Nurses' tendencies to communicate things that do not contain the essence are related to the patient's condition as a whole. Hospital focused an effort on improving the quality of handover of individual patients by making a separate handover form. The purpose of this form is to help nurses stay focused on using SBAR in implementation. This form serves as a guide for nurses when doing handovers between shifts. The use of this form is expected to minimize incomplete data handover between nurses. The important components in the inter-shift handover form include an assessment which is a summary of examination results completed by nurses throughout the nursing shift. The patients' wound and the environmental THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NURSING SHIFT HANDOVER INTERVENTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE INCIDENCE OF PRESSURE ULCERS ByAmalia Cahyaningtyas
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