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Exploring socio-technical insights for safe nursing handover

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posted on 2023-05-19, 10:26 authored by Ming WongMing Wong, Kwang YeeKwang Yee, Paul TurnerPaul Turner
Current efforts to improve nursing handover frequently use prescriptive approaches based on research evidence of handover issues within a single nursing ward or nursing specialty. Despite reported handover improvement, few studies adequately consider the transferability of results to other nursing handover environments or acknowledge the unique attributes that supported sustained improvement. With the increasing diffusion of electronic tools it has become even more critical to ensure that socio-technical issues that may impact on the quality and safety of nursing handovers are identified. This paper describes a qualitative research project that examined nursing handover in three different wards - General Medicine, General Surgery and Department of Emergency Medicine in a tertiary teaching hospital. Through conduct of a detailed analysis of nursing handover processes, this paper highlights the similarities and differences in the handover among the three different wards and presents five key socio-technical insights to support safe nursing handover.

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Publication title

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volume

241

Pagination

43-48

ISSN

0926-9630

Department/School

School of Health Sciences

Publisher

IOS Press

Place of publication

Netherlands

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© 2017 The authors and IOS Press. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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