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Factors Affecting Quality of Nursing Handover among Staff Nurses and Its Relation to Patients’ Safety in Intensive Care Units

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Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

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Background: Intensive Care Unit ﴾ICU﴿ staff nurses role includes maintaining the continuity of
patients care around the clock. High‐quality nursing handover helps them to accomplish their role
efficiently. Aim: This study aimed to assess factors affecting quality of nursing handover among
staff nurses and its relation to patients' safety in ICUs. Subjects and Method: Design: A
descriptive correlational study design was used to achieve the aim of the present study. Setting: The
study was conducted at Tanta International Teaching Hospital (ICUs). Subjects: 255 staff nurses
were involved in the study. Tools: Two tools were used to collect the data. Tool I: Factors
Affecting Quality of Nursing Handover in ICUs Questionnaire. Tool II: Patients' Safety Issues in
ICUs Questionnaire. Results: ICU staff nurses' highest mean percent of factors affecting nursing
handover process quality were regarding relations with outgoing nurse 86.66, last handover
experience 80.64 and unit safety climate 71.18. According to total ICU staff nurses' perceptions
about patients' safety, 51.8% perceived a fair level in their work environment. 53.8% of staff nurses
perceived a good level of patients' safety issues in their supervisors' expectations and actions
promoting safety. Conclusion: There was a positive correlation between total factors affecting
quality of nursing handover process and patients' safety issues in ICUs. Recommendations:
Hospital management need to conduct continuous updating of handover policies and strategies to
ensure its efficiency to keep patients' safety. Also, ICU staff nurses require allocating enough time
every shift for the handover process.

DOI

10.21608/tsnj.2023.291046

Authors

First Name

Ussra

Last Name

Obaia

MiddleName

Ibrahim

Affiliation

Head Nurse at Tanta International Teaching Hospital

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ussra.obaya@gmail.com

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First Name

Safaa

Last Name

Zahran

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Abd El-Moniem

Affiliation

Assistant Professor, Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University

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safaa.zahran@nursing.tanta.edu.eg

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Heba

Last Name

Obied

MiddleName

Kamal

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Assistant Professor, Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University

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28

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1

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40286

Issue Date

2023-03-01

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2023-01-02

Publish Date

2023-03-01

Page Start

79

Page End

91

Print ISSN

2314-5595

Online ISSN

2735-5519

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TSNJ_Volume 28_Issue 1_Pages 79-91.pdf

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Tanta Scientific Nursing Journal

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Factors Affecting Quality of Nursing Handover among Staff Nurses and Its Relation to Patients’ Safety in Intensive Care Units

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25 Dec 2024