| 1. Patients experience multiple transitions in care between nursing providers (handoffs) during hospitalization. Handoffs are opportunities for communication errors to occur. 2. Patient handoffs between the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) to the nursing division is a frequent event within hospitals. Methods of handoff vary in practice from face-to-face, telephone, or written report. 3. Nurses receiving patient handoff may experience varying degrees of self-efficacy levels in providing care to the newly acquired patient from the PACU. Self-efficacy levels can be measured utilizing the Nursing Care Self-Efficacy Scale (NCSES). 4. Variances in nursing self-efficacy scores among the methods of face-to-face and telephone patient handoff were analyzed within this project. 5. Educating PACU nursing staff on the five p's of handoff (patient information, plan of care, purpose, precautions, and problems) may improve self-efficacy scores with nurses receiving a post-operative patient. |
