Honors Thesis/Project Director

Nursing care occurs on a continuum that involves transferring the responsibility of a patient’s care from one nurse to another during shift change. Hand-off reports are a vital part of the communication cycle to ensure safe and effective care. Studies have shown bedside reporting increases patient and nurse satisfaction as well as the nurse-patient relationship (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2013b). The aim of this study was to educate nurses on the importance of bedside reporting and to implement a standardized hand-off. This study was evaluated through two measures. The first measure involved a survey/interview on nurses' perception before and after nurse education on bedside reporting. The second measure involved observation of nurses ' behavior during hand-off before and after the educational in-service. Data was collected by nursing students from the Eleanor Mann School of Nursing and the student nurse researchers. The student nurse researchers administered and collected nurse surveys on nurse satisfaction with report and barriers to presenting report at the bedside. Both the student nurse researchers and nursing students observed the nurses during report and recorded data utilizing a checklist (Appendix A). After the educational in-service, nurse compliance with th