Bedside Reporting and SBAR: Improving Patient Communication and Satisfaction

Introduction of Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation into Nursing Practice: A Prospective Study

“…[9] Use of standardized hands off communication during bedside shift handover is essential for patient safety, as the benefits for patients outweigh the risks and cost of implementation. [14] The patient, who is the focus of all interaction, should be involved in decision-making and updated with information relevant to them, which in turn will help in reducing errors and create a sense of well-being and satisfaction.…”

Improving Chinese nursing students' communication skills by utilizing video-stimulated recall and role-play case scenarios to introduce them to the SBAR technique

“…Although the SBAR tool has been tested in United States and shown to provide positive outcomes (Novak, 2012;Ardoin and Broussard, 2011), it was unclear whether or not the SBAR tool would be commensurate with the needs of Chinese nursing students and appropriate with their curriculum. As one of the first studies (1) to workshop the SBAR communication technique in Chinese nursing education in China and (2) to evaluate whether or not the use of the SBAR communication technique improves nursing students' inter-professional communication skills-particularly among nursing students (e.g., nurse to nurse shift report and nurse to physicians/ other interdisciplinary team), our study suggests that the inclusion of SBAR in the nursing curriculum in China can positively impact both didactic and clinical aspects of the pedagogical experience of the students.…”

A quantitative assessment of patient and nurse outcomes of bedside nursing report implementation

“…Unfortunately, although there is strong consistency in the suggested strategies for the implementation of bedside report, there is a gap in the literature in terms of documenting quantitative patient and nurse outcomes (Riesenberg et al . , Novak & Fairchild , Staggers & Blaz , Sherman et al . ).…”