Nurses Perception about Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation (SBAR) Shift Report and Patient’s Safety

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1 Head Nurse at Sohag Cancer Center, Egypt

2 Professor of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing Assiut University, Egypt

3 Assistant Professor of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing Assiut University, Egypt

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Background: communication is essential element in providing patient health care services. SBAR shift reports are utilized to ensure communicating patient’s information briefly without unimportant details. Aim: Evaluate nurse's perception about situation, background, assessment, recommendation and patient’s safety. Study design: the study was performed using descriptive design. Setting: the research performed at Sohag Cancer Center. Subject: involved of 50 nurse's works at inpatients department Tools: Tool (I) consists of two parts Part (1): Personal data sheet which gathered data about: gender, age, and years of experience, educational qualification, and marital status. Part (2): Self administer questionnaire about Nurse’s perception related to situation, background, assessment, and recommendation. It included 25 multiple choice questions. Tool (II): patient’s safety audit checklist, the tool consists of 17 items with sub-items covering general patient’s safety goal. Results: all nurses had unsatisfactory knowledge score (100.0%) and no patient’s safety activity (25). Conclusion: nurses have low knowledge score about SBAR shift report and no activity in relation to patient’s safety goals Recommendations: implementing inservices training program on SBAR shift report applications, and further studies investigating SBAR shift report format on nurses productivity and nurses, patient satisfaction

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