What is the evidence on actively engaging nurses at bedside shift report?

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Joanna Briggs Institute’s JBI+COnNECT, an evidence summary source, has published this evidence summary on clinical handover.
Good overview of evidence, but nothing specifically on nurses’ attitudes or how to actively engage nurses in bedside shift report specifically.

PubMed
bedside shift AND (report OR round* OR handover) AND (attitudes OR (nurses AND psychology))
The articles below are from the PubMed search and describe implementation of or changes to shift reports and may be most helpful.

1: Chaboyer W, McMurray A, Wallis M. Bedside nursing handover: a case study. Int
J Nurs Pract. 2010 Feb;16(1):27-34. PubMed PMID: 20158545.

2: Staggers N, Jennings BM. The content and context of change of shift report on
medical and surgical units. J Nurs Adm. 2009 Sep;39(9):393-8. PubMed PMID:
19745636.

3: Athwal P, Fields W, Wagnell E. Standardization of change-of-shift report. J
Nurs Care Qual. 2009 Apr-Jun;24(2):143-7. PubMed PMID: 19287253.

4: Caruso EM. The evolution of nurse-to-nurse bedside report on a
medical-surgical cardiology unit. Medsurg Nurs. 2007 Feb;16(1):17-22. PubMed
PMID: 17441625.

5: Anderson CD, Mangino RR. Nurse shift report: who says you can’t talk in front
of the patient? Nurs Adm Q. 2006 Apr-Jun;30(2):112-22. PubMed PMID: 16648723.

6: Philpin S. ‘Handing over’: transmission of information between nurses in an
intensive therapy unit. Nurs Crit Care. 2006 Mar-Apr;11(2):86-93. PubMed PMID:
16555756.

7: Manias E, Street A. The handover: uncovering the hidden practices of nurses.
Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2000 Dec;16(6):373-83. PubMed PMID: 11091469.

CINAHL search:  bedside AND shift AND (report OR round* OR handover) AND (attitudes OR (nurses AND psychology))
Limited to English and Peer-reviewed,   Excluded records that are also in Medline (PubMed)
Retrieved one additional record that includes a survey of nurses’ attitudes.
Communication at the bedside to enhance patient care: A survey of nurses’ experience and perspective of handover.Detail Only Available (includes abstract); Street, Maryann; Eustace, Paula; Livingston, Patricia M; Craike, Melinda J; Kent, Bridie; Patterson, Denise; International Journal of Nursing Practice, 2011 Apr; 17 (2): 133-40.

The fulltext for this article is available through the JBI+  journals page.

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