Highlighted Features
Email  Send To A Friend
|
 Share
|
Font Size: A A A
|
Print   Print
 
Study reaffirms link between nurse communication and patient safety 
By  

Your Member Benefit
Thank you for your interest in Reflections on Nursing Leadership. This article is for members of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International. If you are a member, please use your e-mail address as your username and seven-digit constituent identification number as your password to sign in. The sign in link is located in the upper right-hand corner of this webpage. If you have any trouble signing in, please contact member services.

If you are not a member and would like information about membership, visit http://www.nursingsociety.org/Membership/.

Study reaffirms link between nurse communication and patient safety, 6/19/2010
by: Ms Chané Crystal 		Rating: 5
I work in a public hospital in the North West Province in South Africa. I have to add that this issue is also worsened by factors such as language barriers, especially in our country where some nurses struggle to understand English during report handover with shift changes. A major problem as well is that due to our large wards, up to 50 patients per ward, the nurses "rush" through report handover, just to get it finished, and then sometimes leave out some important detail. I think that this is a problem that will be difficult to address, due to the lack of resources of creating more wards, with less patients, with adequate amount of staff, as there are no sufficient funding for this purpose and due to our severe shortage of nurses. I feel this is a major contribution to the lack of optimal and qualitative patient care.
To comment on this article please sign in.