Handover Objectives
● Provide patient-quality care
● Improved better communication
● Improve implementation of nursing care
● Ensure doctor’s queries and patients
needs are addressed properly and
promptly
According to _________, a Handover
requires a nurse to
● Communicate objectively, appropriately,
and concisely with other health
professionals;
● Understand and use medical or nursing
terminology
● Interpret charts and other documents
● (Write up?) patient observations, and
understand clinical procedures.
Flinders University
According to Flinders University, a Handover
requires a nurse to:
● Communicate objectively, appropriately,
and concisely with other health
professionals;
● Understand and use medical or nursing
terminology
● Interpret charts and other documents
● (Write up?) patient observations, and
understand clinical procedures.
Endorsement Flow
Before the handover, the nurse must
ensure that the ________ has been
done
tabulation of the departmental census report
The nurse shall read the entries from
the _________ of the
departmental census to the incoming
nurse
end-of-shift report
Handover Responsibilities
Bedside Nurse to Bedside Nurse
Outgoing Nurse:
Before Endorsement
Handover Responsibilities
Bedside Nurse to Bedside Nurse
Outgoing Nurse:
During Endorsement
Handover Responsibilities
Bedside Nurse to Bedside Nurse
Outgoing Nurse:
After Endorsement
Basic Flow
Using a chart is requisite during the
entire endorsement process. T or F?
True
Back reading of the doctor’s order must
begin ___hours prior to the latest order.
48 hrs
_____________ must be
done for newly ordered medicine to
ensure complete transcription to
medication administration record
Comparative endorsement
Nursing Assistant Procedures
● VS, CBG, I & O monitoring
● Patients who need extra care like
changing diapers, ambulation, or enteral
feedings
● Inventory of IME, Departmental assets,
crash carts
● For completion of unfinished errands
like NF medicine, CM, borrowed
supplies, and post charges.
In absence of the clinical coders and nursing
assistants, who shall perform their
role?
the bedside nurse
Handover Using Cardex:
Attending Physician
● Consent
● RIC informed/aware
● Encoded to system
● HMO accredited
● House/Private case
Handover Using Cardex:
Laboratories Procedure
● Encoded/to encode
● To be performed
● Pending result
● Result released (referred)
Handover Using Cardex:
Monitoring
● VS, NVS, CBG Frequency
● Abnormal - Referred to
● Weight, abd. Girth, pain scale
Handover Using Cardex:
Patient Safety
● Fall Tool Assessment
● History of Fall
● Signages
Handover Using Cardex:
IV Fluids
● On-going IVF
● IVF rate, level, number
● Side drip, cycle number
● IVF to follow
● IV site and due
Handover Using Cardex:
Diet
● Allergies (labeled)
● Progression (To inform)
● Religion
● Restriction
Handover Using Cardex:
Contrapments
Drains (FC, colostomy, IJ, cystoclysis)
Handover Using Cardex:
Machines
● Cardiac monitor
● Pulse ox
● Telemetry
Blood Products
● Type of blood
● # of available units or to secure
● Blood typing
● Compatibility
● No. of blood transfused