STOP! In the Name of Safety … Implementing a Pause in PACU Handover

Handover communication is an essential part of safe patient care. In a unit like the PACU, we depend on quality report form the OR team to initiate our interventions for the patients we receive. Historically, OR RNs who are pressed to achieve increasingly stringent turnover times have been in a hurry to finish handover to the PACU RN, regardless of the patient stability upon admission in the PACU. This has led to staff dissatisfaction and unsafe patient care conditions.

Source: Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing - July 31, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Abigail Kathleen M. Acosta, Julie Mungridis, Frances Bullman, Caroline Estrada, Deborah Ralph, Heidi Phillips, Susan Ruiz Endoscopy, Antonio Lira, Kelly Marsh Hogue Tags: ASPAN National Conference Abstract Source Type: research