[psykrn]

Is there any psych/QA nurse willing to share your ideas on how to implement hand off communication?

Thanks

[jtaublib]

It is pretty easy to develop a checksheet in Excel with the elements your units feel is necessary to communicte with each other. e.g.:

V/s
B/P
Allergies
Diagnosis
Plan of Care
Med List
Pain & Level
Nutritional Status
Functional Status
Care Plan & Issues
Education Given/Required
Self Care Deficits
Discharge Plan
Etc.

The way we developed ours was to have our Nurse Managers come up with a list of elements they would like communicated. We merged all their replies and deveoped and trialed the list to remove or add elements. Hope this helps