A change of venue for the change-of-shift report had an "immediate and dramatic" effect for nursing staff and patients on a medical oncology unit at the Community Medical Center in Toms River, New ...

Hospitals are transforming the traditional way nurses change shifts to reduce the chance of errors and oversights in the transfer of information. A critical side effect: patients feel safe, included ...

Until 2007, nurses at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis relied on traditional shift change reporting methods to communicate patient care information from caregiver to caregiver. But when ...

Despite some concerns from nurses that handing off care at the patient's bedside may take too much time and potentially violate patient confidentiality, more hospitals are changing the way nurses ...

Hospitals are altering the way nurses change shifts — and it’s for the better, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. 1. Traditionally, nurses going off duty typically talk with the nurse ...

Bedside nurses are occupied in non-patient care tasks for a quarter of their shifts, according to a new survey. The report shows nurses lose three hours of patient care every 12-hour shift to ...