Annotated Bibliography – Improvement Plan Tool Kit Example

Various literature items are summarized to enhance a better understanding of the usefulness of bedside shift reporting in promoting patient safety and, thus, good nursing quality. The main themes are addressed: implementing bedside shift reporting, benefits and outcomes of bedside shift reporting, and challenges of bedside shift reporting.

Dorvil, B. (2018). The secrets to successful nurse bedside shift report implementation and sustainability. Nursing Management, 49(6), 20–25. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.numa.0000533770.12758.44

Dorvil did an expert review on the secrets of successful bedside shift reporting nurses. The author of this expert review, Boryana Dorvil, is a DNP and registered nurse who works at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital as a case manager, emphasized that implementing bedside shift reporting has to be systemic and planned properly. She explains the benefits that both nurses and patients derive from bedside shift reporting (BSR).

The outstanding advantages are the nurse’s satisfaction, patient satisfaction, and safety. Dorvil also provides a strategic review of the best ways to implement bedside shift reporting in settings where this new toolkit is yet to be installed. The author explained that organization planning and readiness are crucial to implementing bedside shift reporting.

Nursing leadership and consistency in practice make the implementation of BSR successful and habitable. However, cost implications to the organization must be incurred to compensate nurses for their overtime duties. This article benefits a care setting that wants to transition to BSR from the traditional systems.

White-Trevino, K., & Dearmon, V. (2018). Transitioning nurse handoff to the bedside: Engaging staff and patients. Nursing Administration Quarterly, 42(3), 261–268. https://doi.org/10.1097/NAQ.0000000000000298

White-Trevino and Dearmon are nursing care professionals at West Florida Hospital. They aimed at demonstrating how to implement bedside shift reporting in an acute care setting. In the acute care setting, excellent and timely communication is vital to patient safety. Poor communication can lead to medical and medication errors.

This article is useful because it reported findings from a study done after implementing BSR in the emergency room. Before implementing BSR, nurses need to ensure quality and reliable informational exchange in patient care. This information exchange needs to be standardized and patient-centered for a successful handover. This study showed that nurses’ subjective ability to respond timely to patient needs was improved.

By meeting patient needs promptly, their safety risks regarding physical harm will likely reduce. The nurses also derive personal satisfaction with this kind of care. The effectiveness of the reporting process contributes greatly to the reduction in patient risk of harm. Therefore, the methodology used by these authors can be an effective quality improvement progress that would improve our patient safety.

Jimmerson, J., Wright, P., Cowan, P. A., King-Jones, T., Beverly, C. J., & Curran, G. (2021). Bedside shift report: Nurses’ opinions based on their experiences. Nursing Open, 8(3), 1393–1405. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.755

Jimmerson and colleagues published a qualitative study about nurses’ experiences on bedside shift reporting. This study acknowledged reduced postimplementation adoption rates of bedside reports. Therefore, they aim to conduct this study to assess the expectedness of nurses and their supervisors on the bedside shift reporting process and postimplementation challenges. This piece of literature gives us the challenges that can anticipate after the implementation of BSR in our setting. This article also gives a nurse the impressions and opinions of other nurses that hwho have implemented this safety strategyfying the original BSR to meet organizational settings and expectations is necessary.

Ernst, K. M., McComb, S. A., & Ley, C. (2018). Nurse-to-nurse shift handoffs on medical-surgical units: A process within the flow of nursing care. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27(5–6), e1189–e1201. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14254

This article addresses three main themes of using BS