“Intra-hospital handover requires clear processes, to promote high-quality information sharing. Ensuring these processes are broad and acceptable across units may ensure nurses’ needs are met. Relational continuity between nurses is an important consideration when improving intra-hospital handover.”

“Improvement in intra-hospital handover is challenging because multiple hospital units are involved. A meso-level leader could liaise across units and standardise handover processes using SOPs. Within SOPs, checklists could support standardisation consisting of broad content that is acceptable to end-users across varying units, which could be incorporated into EMR. Acknowledging handover as a high-risk task and giving nurses permission to spend time preparing for handover may also facilitate high-quality handover.”

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