Bedside Shift Report

1. Nurse Benefits

1.1. Accountability and Advocasy

1.2. Role Modeling Behaviours

1.3. Establish Closeness With the Patient

1.4. Team work

1.5. Time to Ask Questions/Clarifications

2. Nurse Barriers

2.1. Lack of Confidence

2.2. Call Bells/Phone Interruptions

2.3. Language Barriers

2.4. Lengthy Reports/Biased Report

2.5. Inadequate Training

2.6. Other Tasks: sending patients to procedures or OR

2.7. New admission/discharge

2.8. Emergency Situation: Code, Stroke, Falls

3. Leaders

3.1. Educated on Approaches for Adoption and Innovations

3.2. Provide Consistency

3.3. Note the Feedback from Nurses and Patient

3.4. Encourage

3.5. Provide Evidence Based Practice to Enhance Understanding

3.6. Re-educate as Needed

4. Cost/Statistics

4.1. Decreases Overtime 10 minutes a day after bedside shift report implementation

4.2. Decrease in Annual Salary Expense

5. Patient Benefits

5.1. Promotes Feelings of Safety

5.2. Meets Patient Needs

5.3. Facilitates Trusting Relationship

5.4. Help Improve Patient Compliance

6. Patient Barriers

6.1. Medical Jargon

6.2. Language Barriers

6.3. Patient's condition (fatigue, difficulty speaking, difficulty hearing..)

7. Organization

7.1. HIPPA

7.2. SBAR Policy

7.3. Bedside Report Policy