Compliance and effectiveness of nurse handover checklist category: new dimensions in patient safety
International Journal of Development Research
Compliance and effectiveness of nurse handover checklist category: new dimensions in patient safety
Received 17th September, 2019; Received in revised form 23rd October, 2019; Accepted 06th November, 2019; Published online 31th December, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Sheryl Cornelio et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Introduction: - The procedures for handover-takeover are usually different depending on the workplace. It is one of the important and helpful methods to transfer the information between nurses. Methodology: - descriptive design was used in this study. Data collection was done from 5527 samples from the inpatient departments. Result: - study shows that the handing over taking over checklist helps to provide complete information of the patient to other staff. Conclusion: - hence it is proved in this study that use of nurse handover checklist is an effective method of communication in nursing scenario.
