Shift Change on Med-Surg

[nursemel374]

How do you do shift change at your hosptial? We recently had the Joint Commission out and they told us we need to do 1:1 nurse to nurse report instead of the charge nurse general report we give now. We are wondering how we can get this done in 30 minutes!!!

[loriangel14, RN]

Where I work no one hits the floor until report is heard.Bells go unanswered and no one interupts us. Any questions are addressed at the end. Report usually takes about half an hour.

[elizabells, BSN, RN]

We give a quick report to the charge nurse a couple of hours before change of shift, and then ALWAYS 1:1 with your oncoming nurse. If someone's going to be really late she usually will call the pod and get a phone report. If your relief doesn't show and no call, generally you write report and also give it verbally to a nurse in your area, who looks after your patients until the late nurse shows or the assignment is parceled out among the staff who are there.