Use of whiteboards (aka dry-erase boards) at the patients’ bedside

This collection contains 22 articles primarily about the use of whiteboards (aka dry-erase boards) in patients’ rooms. It includes articles even when the use of a board was briefly mentioned because it may include an idea for something to add to an existing board or provide ideas on how whiteboards have been used in bundles. An article on use of a goals’ worksheet posted near patients’ beds is included since it may be useful for coming up with ideas for what to add to the whiteboard since goals are usually on the board.

Here is one search technique that was used to find articles in PubMed: “white board” OR “white boards” OR “whiteboard” OR “whiteboards” OR dry-erase OR “dry erase” OR “goals worksheet” OR “goals worksheets”) AND (room OR rooms OR bedside) AND (patient OR patients) AND (nurse OR nurses OR nursing)

To access the collection and to read abstracts and access full text (where available) using the Find it @ Emory button, please first open Emory’s instance of PubMed. Once you have accessed PubMed, copy/paste the following url into the same browser window: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HMKnKhQm_d5i/collections/56051967/public/
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Improving nursing communication with patients on the surgical floor

For the PubMed search, search terms were the following:
hospital staff nurses AND communication AND patients AND (surgical floor OR intensive care units).

Here a few references from this  search that provide links to the full text. Below these references is a link to a PubMed collection of 33 references.

Norouzinia R, Aghabarari M, Shiri M, Karimi M, Samami E. Communication
barriers perceived by nurses and patients
. Glob J Health Sci. 2015 Sep
28;8(6):65-74. doi: 10.5539/gjhs.v8n6p65. PubMed PMID: 26755475; PubMed Central
PMCID: PMC4954910.

Garon M. Speaking up, being heard: registered nurses’ perceptions of workplace
communication
. J Nurs Manag. 2012 Apr;20(3):361-71. doi:
10.1111/j.1365-2834.2011.01296.x. Epub 2011 Oct 13. PubMed PMID: 22519614.

Slade. J. (2016) Team Concepts.  Building a safe unit culture with CUSP. Nursing Managment. 47 (12_) 8-12. doi.10.1097/01.NUMA.0000508266.49722.7d

Here is how to access PubMed collection of 33 references.
Go to Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Library webpage: http://health.library.emory.edu
Click on Pubmed.
Paste this url into your browser: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HuA1sy0j55QI/collections/52512309/public/