NURSES AWARENESS REGARDING CLINICAL HANDOVER AMONG CRITICAL CARE NURSES IN ALMEK NIMER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL –RIVER NILE STATE - SUDAN

Us. Abdalrhman Akasha Abdalrhman, Dr. Higazi Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah*, Dr. Amna Omer Abdalrhman

ABSTRACT

Background: Clinical handover involves the transfer of accountability and responsibility of clinical information from one health professional to another. The main role of clinical handover is to transmit accurate, relevant and current details about the patients' care, treatment, health service needs, clinical assessment monitoring and evaluation, and goal planning.[4] Objective: To assess nurses awareness about clinical handover among critical care nurses. Methods: this was descriptive across-sectional study, conducted in Elmek Nimer hospital among nurses work in intensive care unit. The data was collected by close ended questionnaire which composed (18question) and it is analysis by SPSS vision (20). Result and conclusion: Result conducted that all most (90%) of study group had good knowledge about elements of handover also majority (76.7% ) of them had fair knowledge about barriers to effective communication and majority (83.3%) of them had good knowledge about Transfer of patient, patient satisfaction during change of duty and (73.3%) had fair knowledge about type of teaching points.

Keywords: clinical – handover – critical – nurse – knowledge.