Free tool: Improving nurse and nursing assistant communication
Nurse Leader Insider, July 30, 2015
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RNs and nursing assistants do not always communicate optimally. In many institutions, nursing assistants/aides do not attend the change-of-shift report and often receive patient information as an afterthought. This can be resolved by implementing the use of a laminated briefing card with key patient care items that the nurses used to brief the aide they would be working with on their shift.
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