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- Title
Improved record-keeping with reading handovers.
- Authors
Tucker A; Brandling J; Fox P
- Abstract
Nursing handover has traditionally been performed orally and apart from patients. Results of an audit undertaken at the Royal United Hospital, Bath, suggest that record-keeping standards there were poor. To improve these standards, a method of 'reading handover', in which the main method of communication between nurses on different shifts is written rather than oral, was introduced on one ward. This article discusses the results of this pilot study and suggests that the new handover method has improved standards of record keeping.
- Publication
Nursing Management - UK, 2009, Vol 16, Issue 8, p30
- ISSN
1354-5760
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.7748/nm2009.12.16.8.30.c7396