Does your facility have a protocol or guidelines that either limit admissions to inpatient floors during shift change so that oncoming nurses have adequate time to get report for patients they are going to take care of before settling a newly admitted patient? Mainly patients being admitted from the ER..
I work on a Mother/Baby floor. We receive almost all our admissions from Labor and Delivery. We have requested that no transfers be made to our floor from L&D 30 minutes before & after shift change. It is not a formal policy.
Thank you for your answer, Rose Mary Ainsworth. I've also worked for a facility that does that and again no formal policy. No research either has ever been done to trial this.
Prudence
this is a very emotive topic for us working in ED, with 3-4 shift changes per day and break times limiting admission times can adversely affect the KPI for ED flow also, time and motion studies have been done on this with suggested paper based handover (electronic in some sites) to ensure effective information transmission
Mick
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