Cost effectivenessof nursing handover: an action research

Abstract

Nursing handover is the transfer of responsibility and accountability for patients care between nurses that conducted three times a day in most nursing wards globally.1 It has been described as having different functions such as transfer of information as an overt functions and socialization, cohesiveness and release of frustrations and emotions as covert functions.2,3 Each ward vary in their method of sharing information during handover, range from face-to-face verbal reports in the station or at the patient’s bedside to written and taped reports.4,5