Question

Why do you think nurses seem to be resistant to bedside report?

Answer 1

As we know at the end of shift report, the offgoing nurse handed over the patient care to the oncoming nurse. It has given as verbal report traditionally along with the particulars of the patient details from the time of admission. The nurse gives the prerecorded report of what took place in her shift.

The Nurse bedside report strategy is made to ensure the safe handover of patient care with the involvement of patient and families. But some of the nurses are resistant to Bedside report. The Reasons behind this are

• Nurses are firmly adopted to old ways of verbal report.
• Bedside reporting is challengeable to Nurses in some situations like if the patient is sleeping, the patient is uncooperative.
• If the patient is not aware of the diagnosis or related problems makes difficult to nurses to report.
• It was time-consuming as they need to answer patient questions.
• Interruptions between the report make distractions in the handover.
• Sometimes the environment is not desirable for handover.
• The use of medical terms makes the patient fear and anxiety.
• Morning Bedside Handover disrupts the patient sleeping and contrary to the patient recover.
• Patients feel sensitive when his/her medical information is shared in the room is known by the other patients in the same room.
• In Bedside report, the Nurse losses their social aspect as they lose the chance of sharing their own stress and difficulties met at the shift period.