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Congruence Between Intershift Reports and Patients' Actual Conditions
Author(s) -
Richard Judith A.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1988.tb00019.x
Subject(s) - congruence (geometry) , active listening , evening , psychology , nursing care , nursing , social psychology , medicine , communication , physics , astronomy
After listening to 57 intershift reports on adult medical‐surgical units of an 800‐bed metropolitan hospital, distributed over day, evening and night shifts, this investigator verified the reports by checking each patient. Predetermined pertinent items were analyzed for congruence, omissions and omissions resulting in incongruence. Since discrepancies occurred, a means for verifying the intershift report may need to be addressed as a standard of care for the profession of nursing.