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Handoff Reporting
Briana Walters, Madison Totty, Sydney Mingo, Blake George, and Jacques Ravary
NUR 270: Professional Nursing Concepts II
Centra College Associate Degree in Nursing Program
Date: 04/13/2023
Background
Ebsco Host
● Key words: Nursing, Handoff, and Safety
● 240 Results
● Revised search: SBAR, interprofessional communication, acute care, and
adverse event
● 13 hits
Relationship between Interprofessional
Communication and Team Task Performance
● Population: 194 nursing students, divided into 49 teams.
● Intervention: SBAR communication tool
● Strengths: Included a doctor in study, uses an emergency setting, level
three cohort study
● Weaknesses: smaller study, limited studies into how SBAR contributes to
healthcare emergency.
● Application: The team task performance without error correlated
positively with read back communication.
Impact of the communication and patient hand-off tool
SBAR on patient safety: a systematic review
Overview
● Number 1 cause of anesthesia-related sentinel events is breakdown of communication.
● Failure in communication is the second most common contributing to adverse events in recovery
units
● A complete omission of information occurs in 57% of surgical malpractice claims.
● A physical handoff checklist decreased handover related failures by 69% in a year.
● I-PASS handover bundle led to a 23% reduction in overall medical errors and 30% reduction in
preventable adverse events.
● Handoff reports serve as a guideline for standardized information transfer as well as a physical
checklist of vital information.
Evidence-Based Policy: Communication Handoffs Continued
- Abbaszade, A., Assarroudi, A., Armat, M. R., Stewart, J. J., Rakhshani, M. H., Sefidi, N., & Sahebkar, M. (2020). Evaluation of the impact of handoff based on the
SBAR technique on quality of nursing care. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 36(3). https://doi.org/10.1097/ncq.0000000000000498
- Ghezeljeh, T. N., Farahani, M. A., & Ladani, F. K. (2020). Factors affecting nursing error communication in Intensive Care Units: A qualitative study. Nursing
- Methangkool, E., Tollinche, L., Sparling, J., & Agarwala, A. V. (2019). Communication: Is there a standard handover technique to transfer patient care? International
- Müller, M., Jürgens, J., Redaèlli, M., Klingberg, K., Hautz, W. E., & Stock, S. (2018). Impact of the communication and patient hand-off tool SBAR on patient safety:
- Lee, K.R., & Kim, E.J. ( 2020). Relationship between interprofessional communication and team task performance. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 43, pg 44-50.
- Lucas, J., Shepherd, C., Best, C., Rodgers, G., Page, K., & Kyei, M. (2022). IMPROVING PATIENT CARE THROUGH HANDOFF COMMUNICATION..47th
Annual Oncology Nursing Society Congress, April 27-May 1, 2022, Anaheim, CA. Oncology Nursing Forum, 49(2), E123. https://doi.org/10.1188/22.ONF.E2
- Wilson, B., Deal, J., Mclean, V., Morcom, D. (2021). Preoperative Checklist, Handoff Communication. [CLIN.02.05.16] Centrahealth.