Combining Bedside Reporting with Recorded Report and Involvement of Family Members

Appraisal of Qualitative and Quantitative Studies
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Appraisal of Qualitative and Quantitative Studies
Picot Statement
Population: Patients in the critical care unit
Intervention: Involving family members in the bedside report
Comparison: Blending recording and bedside report
Outcome: Reduce the risks of patient fall
Timeline: During the hospital stay
Question: Does combining bedside reporting with recorded report and involvement of family members during the bedside reporting significantly reduce the risks of patient fall?
In patients in the critical care unit (P), does monitoring, assessment, and communication (I), compared to blending recording and bedside report (C), effectively reduce the risks of patient fall (O) during the hospital stay (T)?
Introduction
Bedside shit report is known to save lives. This tool is simply the changing of shifts between the outgoing and incoming nurses. A successful bedside shifts requires an effective change of patient medical report to prevent adverse events such as patient fall and medical errors. In addition, both families and patient can help to facilitate a smooth transition between nurses by providing information to the new nurse in case it is was not captured in the handbook. Bedside shifts is important as it permits the use openly outlined obligation from one caregiver to another, releases the impending for "near misses" as well as allowing an collaborative exchange from all parties, including both nurses and patients. On the other hand Patient fall in the hospital has been a recurring problem for many years. It has led to so many costs to the hospital, public, the patient and the family members. Efforts have been consolidated to establish means of reducing the high occurrences of patient fall in care units, but sadly there has been no absolute method proposed to end the stalemate. This study proposes a combination of blending the recorded and bedside report and involvement of family members during the bedside reporting in minimizing cases of patient fall.
Appraised Quantitative Study
Anderson, et al. (2009), conducted a quantitative research with the aim of quantifying the quantitative results of a practice change to a blended form of bedside nursing report. The authors review that there has been a tendency by the previous studies to review the benefits of bedside nursing shift report but none has ever quantified the results of this process to establish its statistical significance. The intent of this paper is to offer a critical review of this research.
Background of the Study
Anderson, et al indicated that many hospitals have implemented a combination of the bedside nursing report and the recorded one with the aim of improving both nursing and patient satisfaction, reducing patient falls, reducing medication errors and enhancing patient safety as the end product. However, the outcomes of the implementation of this process have not been determined. This study considered determining the outcomes so as to inform the proper implementation of the process to help in reducing patient fall and enhancing nurses and patient satisfaction with the care. The author established the significance of the study by demonstrating that if the outcome...