Evidence Based Practice and Applied Nursing Research

Task 2 XAP1-0219

Western Governors University

Section A Section A1: Current Patient Care Process In the Emergency Room (ER) where I work, a current nursing process that I believe requires change is nurse-to-nurse shift change reporting. Universally, shift reporting among healthcare team members is often met with multiple interruptions, disorganized or omitted/overlooked information to be shared and variable communication patterns among nurses [ CITATION Chr15 \l 1033 ]. According to Johnson et al, in Canadian Nursing, the quality of report depends on the experience and the reporting style of the outgoing nurse. Currently, shift reporting in my ER is completed at the nurses station between the outgoing...