Bedside Reporting Policy
Everyday throughout many hospitals and acute care facilities, nurses are receiving and handing off shift report at nursing stations. Handling report at the desk in no way involves visualizing the actual patient, or including them in their own plan of care. This way of reporting is becoming a huge safety issue and is leaving enormous room for miscommunication and error. Many hospitals around the world have begun to implement a mandatory bedside reporting policy. This policy is put into play to help the nurses as well as patients become involved in the shift report. This allows more room for open communication and safety checks, as well as patient involvement. Among the vital elements were that the oncoming and outgoing …show more content…
Private interviews may be conducted with patients to provide results of favor. Implementing this policy will not incorporate any extra financial needs. This policy is simply redesigning shift report for better outcomes. Having nurses confine to the change from their regular routine will most likely be the hardest process to overcome. Informing the staff nurses about all the benefits the policy will expel is important to do before implementing the policy. As an introduction to the bedside report concept, nursing staff members were asked to review several articles outlining the benefits of changing the report process (Olson-Sitki, K., Weitzel, T., & Glisson, D. …show more content…
Implementation of the mandatory bedside reporting policy within the hospital will incorporate another vital source to the list of policies. This model of report improves clinical effectiveness, patient safety, nurse efficiency, and staff satisfaction (Olson-Sitki, K., Weitzel, T., & Glisson, D. (2013). Nurses will have a safer more reliable way of reporting, resulting in increased safety for their patients. After assessing the needs of the customers, planning and focusing on procedures and features, and implementation strategies, this policy will benefit the overall hospital staff and patients. There is no better accomplishment than implementing a policy that increases safety measures for patients while covering nurse’s accountability all in
Everyday throughout many hospitals and acute care facilities, nurses are receiving and handing off shift report at nursing stations. Handling report at the desk in no way involves visualizing the actual patient, or including them in their own plan of care. This way of reporting is becoming a huge safety issue and is leaving enormous room for miscommunication and error. Many hospitals around the world have begun to implement a mandatory bedside reporting policy. This policy is put into play to help the nurses as well as patients become involved in the shift report. This allows more room for open communication and safety checks, as well as patient involvement. Among the vital elements were that the oncoming and outgoing …show more content…
Private interviews may be conducted with patients to provide results of favor. Implementing this policy will not incorporate any extra financial needs. This policy is simply redesigning shift report for better outcomes. Having nurses confine to the change from their regular routine will most likely be the hardest process to overcome. Informing the staff nurses about all the benefits the policy will expel is important to do before implementing the policy. As an introduction to the bedside report concept, nursing staff members were asked to review several articles outlining the benefits of changing the report process (Olson-Sitki, K., Weitzel, T., & Glisson, D. …show more content…
Implementation of the mandatory bedside reporting policy within the hospital will incorporate another vital source to the list of policies. This model of report improves clinical effectiveness, patient safety, nurse efficiency, and staff satisfaction (Olson-Sitki, K., Weitzel, T., & Glisson, D. (2013). Nurses will have a safer more reliable way of reporting, resulting in increased safety for their patients. After assessing the needs of the customers, planning and focusing on procedures and features, and implementation strategies, this policy will benefit the overall hospital staff and patients. There is no better accomplishment than implementing a policy that increases safety measures for patients while covering nurse’s accountability all in