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Hello Dr. Borre and class,
Change is constantly happening in medicine and it’s up to us to help facilitate those changes into our practice. For this collaboration café, I will be discussing the initiative of bedside report. Currently in my department we are trying to get staff back on track to do bedside report mainly to increase patient experience scores. According to Martini and Resek (2021), medical errors was the third leading cause of death with miscommunication being the
main culprit of medical errors. Bedside report helps with creating patient centered care and increases patient safety since it gets the patient, family members, and the healthcare team involved in the care at the same time.
Using the Kotter’s Change Model, as leaders we need uplift the staff to recognize that this is a best practice initiative and get them involved in how to implement this practice. One idea would be to bring this initiative to the unit-based council or build a unit-based council. Currently in my department, we do not have a unit-based council, but we are trying to develop one. Anyways, using the unit-based council, we can get input from staff on how to
help facilitate this change and obtain knowledge on potential barriers to this practice. Then leadership and the unit-based council can come together to plan and implement the initiative. I also think that after implementing, it is very important to praise staff for doing bedside report. To do this, leadership would have to be present during shift change and tell the staff that they have been doing a great job with their bedside report. Also, if there are staff members not doing bedside report, leadership can pull them aside and ask why they aren’t doing it and if they see specific barriers to doing it.
Currently in our department, the leadership team is rounding on patients and
making a presence during shift change to make sure bedside report is being achieved. We have educated staff on why we’re focusing on it and how it increases patient safety and experience.
Reference
Martini, A., & Resek, J. (2021). A practical guide to the implementation of bedside report in a critical care setting.
Critical Care Nursing Quarterly
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(3), 324–333. https://doi.org/10.1097/CNQ.0000000000000368
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