The Impact of Improving Clinical Patient Handover Interventions on Patient Outcomes and Handover Practices: A Complex Nursing Intervention Study

This research was conducted between January and September 2022 at Adana City Education and Training Center.

It was carried out in the Research Hospital General Surgery Intensive Care Clinic (Intensive Care Clinic), Internal Medicine Clinic (Internal Clinic), General Surgery Clinic (Surgical Clinic). The study was carried out in a quasi-experimental design, with the control and experimental groups being the same, before the intervention, in the short term after the intervention (2 weeks after the intervention) and in the long term after the intervention (8 weeks after the intervention).

Training prepared as an expert opinion on patient handover, starting to use the standard patient handover form for each patient, ensuring standardization in handover and supporting this improvement work by managers were expressed as interventions. Training offered; It includes the importance of patient handover, how to ensure standardization and why we should use the standard patient handover form. After the training content was prepared, expert opinions were obtained from 5 people, including clinicians and academicians. The trainings were held in the meeting room of each clinic in 3 different sessions, reaching all nurses in an average of 45 minutes. The trainings were conducted interactively using written, visual and video methods. After the training, the standard patient handover form, which nurses should use in writing and verbally for each patient, was applied by the researcher at the bedside and how to use it was explained. The presentation prepared for the training was shared with nurses.