Handover Tool - Isbar final PDF

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ISBAR handover tool is useful to fill out during Nursing Handover...

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FACULTY OF HEALTH SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY

Professional Learning Portfolio ISBAR Handover Tool Handover has been identified as an essential component to quality and safe patient care. The ISBAR framework provides a structure for clear communication between nurses/midwives and health care team members

I DENTIFY • Identify yourself, the patient and patient’s current location

SITUATION • Admission diagnosis and current condition (improving, stable, deteriorating)

BACKGROUND • Relevant medical and/or surgical history • Allergies • Nursing/medical/allied health consultations • Previous diagnostic or management interventions

ASSESSMENT Assessment of symptoms, risk and function incorporating - psychosocial aspects - response to nursing intervention and medical treatment - actual and potential nursing problems

RECOMMENDATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITY • Required nursing interventions • Medical and allied health orders • Pending treatments/ diagnostic tests • Discharge planning issues...