Synthesizing Knowledge about Nursing Shift Handovers: Overview and Reflections from Evidence-Based Literature

Background: Nursing shift handovers consider to be a pattern of communication that is applied in everyday clinical nursing practice, in order to be fulfilled the goals of organization, continuity, consistency and safety of care that nurses provide to patients.Aim: The aim of this review was the eval...

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Main Author: Efstratios Athanasakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Professor Despina Sapountzi-Krepia 2013-01-01
Series:International Journal of Caring Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.internationaljournalofcaringsciences.org/docs/2.%20Athanasakis.pdf