Guida operativa per la riprogettazione delle consegne tra turni

Pratical guide to improve the quality of nursing handovers between shifts. In recent years, the interest on nursing handover has increased both professionally and scientifically. Many hospitals and health care institutions have designed and implemented educational strategies and specific projects with the intent to improve the quality of nursing handovers. However, no practical guides on handovers capable of supporting both the daily practice and the improvement processes have been published to date. Moreover, the emphasis of the publications available to date has been mainly on how to give information during the handover's processes while its overall aspects, as those connected to cognitive, social and cultural processes of the team, have been mainly neglected. With the intent to fill in the gap, we have identified and summarised a series of practical indications for those who wish to improve the quality and/or to critical reflect on handovers, by integrating with the available literature the knowledge derived from daily practice.