Successfully implementing joint bedside report on a med/surg unit
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Topics: Performance Improvement, Process Management, Operations Skills, Skill Development, Workforce, Quality and Service, Nursing, Clinical Documentation, Management Tools, Dashboards and Reports, Screening and Prevention, Methodologies
Carol Wood, BSN, RN-BC, nurse manager at Baylor Medical Center at Irving
Recently, Jennifer Stewart, interviewed Carol Wood, nurse manager at Baylor Medical Center at Irving, about her strategies for successfully conducting joint bedside report on her med/surg unit. Joint bedside report was initially introduced at Baylor Medical Center at Irving on a critical care unit in 2007 and is now the primary method of handoff hospital-wide.
Joint bedside report offers an opportunity to enhance bedside nurse critical thinking, peer collaboration, and elevate care quality. The practice holds strong potential for improving patient outcomes and nursing practice and has been profiled in the Center’s publications Building Peer Accountability, Elevating Frontline Critical Thinking, and Safeguarding Against Nursing Never Events.
