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

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.

In-patient handoffs

Goldsmith D, Boomhower M, Lancaster DR, Antonelli M, Kenyon MA, Benoit A, Chang F, Dykes PC.Development of a nursing handoff tool: a web-based application to enhance patient safety.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2010 Nov 13;2010:256-60. PMID: 21346980

Benham-Hutchins MM, Effken JA.Multi-professional patterns and methods of communication during patient handoffs. Int J Med Inform. 2010 Apr;79(4):252-67. Epub 2010 Jan 15.
PMID: 20079686

Apker J, Mallak LA, Applegate EB 3rd, Gibson SC, Ham JJ, Johnson NA, Street RL Jr.Exploring emergency physician-hospitalist handoff interactions: development of the Handoff Communication Assessment. Ann Emerg Med. 2010 Feb;55(2):161-70. Epub 2009 Nov 27. PMID: 19944486

Benham-Hutchins M, Effken JA.Multi-professional communication during a patient handoff. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2008 Nov 6:875.
PMID: 18998774

Andrews C, Millar S.Don’t fumble the handoff. Inpatient providers, specialists, and the primary care physician: a medical care delivery system with benefits and complex risks.
J Med Assoc Ga. 2007;96(3):23-4. No abstract available. PMID: 18203554

Apker J, Mallak LA, Gibson SC.Communicating in the “gray zone”: perceptions about emergency physician hospitalist handoffs and patient safety. Acad Emerg Med. 2007 Oct;14(10):884-94.
PMID: 17898250

From JBI+

Nursing: Clinical Handover

A systematic review of nurses’ inter-shift handoff reports in acute care hospitals

Communicating about evidence-based practice in patient care

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