A change of venue for the change-of-shift report had an "immediate and dramatic" effect for nursing staff and patients on a medical oncology unit at the Community Medical Center in Toms River, New ...

Hospitals are altering the way nurses change shifts — and it’s for the better, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. 1. Traditionally, nurses going off duty typically talk with the nurse ...

Hospitals are transforming the traditional way nurses change shifts to reduce the chance of errors and oversights in the transfer of information. A critical side effect: patients feel safe, included ...

Despite some concerns from nurses that handing off care at the patient's bedside may take too much time and potentially violate patient confidentiality, more hospitals are changing the way nurses ...

Before these standards and the bedside shift report could be implemented hospitalwide, Cline and her team developed a PowerPoint presentation and video to help educate staff members on the new process ...

Bedside nurses are occupied in non-patient care tasks for a quarter of their shifts, according to a new survey. The report shows nurses lose three hours of patient care every 12-hour shift to ...

Nurses can cut down on errors and improve patients’ satisfaction by conducting shift change meetings at bedsides rather than at a nursing station, according to recently published research. The ...

Michelle Gray recalls from her years as a critical-care nurse that many patients and their families had no idea what was going on with their care. She realized that lack of information made being in ...

In a new report, the Minnesota Nurses Association shares why over 2,400 nurses in the state left bedside positions over the last year. “Why We Left: 2023 Nursing Workforce Report” identifies chronic ...