[BGSRN]

I am curious what the current practice is as far as having students listen to shift report along with the nursing staff?

Thanks!

[Spidey's mom]

Since we start our report at 2:45 a.m. and the students don't get here until 6:30 a.m. , they just get report from the nurse taking care of their patient/patients.

But if they got here at the same time as us, we would definitely let them in - waaaaay easier than to have to give report again.

steph

[VickyRN]

Originally Posted by BGSRN

I am curious what the current practice is as far as having students listen to shift report along with the nursing staff?

Thanks!

We are very flexible at our school of nursing. It depends upon the individual instructor and the way shift report is handled on the particular unit. This past semester, shift report on our clinical unit took place in a very large room, with plenty of space for the students. It did not take an inordinate amount of time. This provided an excellent learning experience for the students, as well as a two-way communication concerning their assigned patients. During the spring semester, at another facility, report was held in a tiny cramped room with barely enough space for staff, much less for students. The entire report would typically take 45 minutes to an hour! This is quite a lot of time to take away from the students' very limited clinical time. Therefore, I decided to "skip" students attending report in this facility; students would get an abbreviated report on each patient from me and from the night shift nurses. The nurses at that facility were exceptionally helpful and welcoming and did not seem to mind giving the students an extra report.

[afiaachiaa]

in my country, students on clinicals have to listen to clinical reports to no what is actually going on in the ward.[Thanks![/student nurse .

[nesher]

No reason not to be there for report. Our report is a quick overview by the charge then one to one with the previous nurse.

[BGSRN]

Thanks for your insight everyone. Interestingly - I was talking to a new graduate who told me that her experience was that the instructor would go over the patients at pre-conference while the staff was listening to their taped report. Once the staff was completed with report the students would listen to the tape on just their patients rather than the whole report. Thought that might be worth a try also

[shull]

BGSRN we did that to which was great until the unit manager decided she didn't want taped report anymore so now we review the printed patient sheets and then ask the primary nurse for a report and we have never had a problem. Sally

[doliveri]

Many of the hospitals that we are contracted with do not want students in shift report. I personally believe that first semester students may not necessarily fully comprehend what is said in shift report and I am not sure how much learning would take place in that instance. However, I have personally fought to have my third semesters students included in shift report, which has worked out well.
For my students that are not permitted to participate in shift report, I appoint a team leader each clinical day who has the job of soliciting report from all the students and then gives that report to everyone in post conference, In post conference, the students then take report and then the students constructively critique the report. This works well and students seem to like this method.
Dee

[caliotter3]

When I was a student most of the time students were included at report time. It was a good experience for us to get involved with the nursing role. I think nursing students should be there at report time unless extreme circumstances, like no space.

[MAISY, RN-ER]

From our second semester clinical cycle we were included in shift report-our primary nurse took the same report as we did, our clinical time was spent caring for patient, but also getting full chart information on a PERSON format. P-psychosocial E-elimination R-rest and Activity S-Safety O-oxygen N-nutrition/ Believe it or not, by filling out those areas we had a complete picture of the patient including labs and history for our care plans and for patient centered care. At the end of our day if it was at shift change we gave report to oncoming shift with RN overseeing. If it was a short day, we gave report to primary RN.
I found it made orientation and adjustment to nursing much easier. Most provided support and supplemented if something was missing. Usually we provided more info than they required.

Now, I work with some RN's who can't give a decent report and are on the phone forever or at shift change with the nurse receiving report asking them a million questions. Somehow, I don't think they did too many during nursing school or while being precepted. Hope this helped.
Maisy