Week 5 Discussion: Student Lead Topics #4-6

Importance of Communication During Patient Handover  key points: 

     The paper discusses the importance of patient handover and communication between healthcare providers in ensuring a patient's safety and well-being. Miscommunication during patient handoff is a leading cause of adverse events, medical errors, and deaths in healthcare. The lack of standardization, organizational structures, clinician workload, provider exhaustion, environmental distractions, language barriers, and method of communication can all lead to ineffective patient handoffs. The paper highlights that successful handoffs can be ensured through standard operating procedures, staff training, exercises or inspections, and outside inspections. The government has added restrictions and guidelines to correct the issue. The paper suggests that individual sites should focus on their policies based on their staff's needs and experience.