Nursing Handover: Experiences and Perspectives in the Critical Care Unit at Murang’a County Referral Hospital

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dc.contributor.authorMurigi, Mwangi
dc.contributor.authorMbuthia, Nickcy
dc.contributor.authorMeng’anyi, Lucy
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-11T12:14:03Z
dc.date.available2024-01-11T12:14:03Z
dc.date.issued2022-11
dc.descriptionArticleen_US
dc.description.abstractContinuity in delivery of nursing care to patient in the critical care unit is of utmost importance. Although nurses have a variety of guidelines and formats to conduct the handover, gaps have been detected regarding the contents of the handover and its effects on the continuity of care in the critical care unit. The focus of the study was to explore the experiences and perspectives of nurses with nursing handover in the critical care unit. The study adopted a phenomenological qualitative design. A sample of 9 critical care nurses participated in this study. The study found critical care nurses believed they were individually equipped with adequate knowledge to carry out effective departmental and interdepartmental nursing handover. The existence of handover policies in the critical care unit was considered a major enabler of the handover. The participants also believed that strained human resource, lack of standardized handover tools and deviation from the set handover rules negatively impacted the handover process. Furthermore, they reported perceived insufficiency in the management’s role in handover evaluation and feedback. Moreover, all participants advocated for improvement of the current handover practices for improved quality of patient care as well as sense of self-accomplishment among the nurses. There are pertinent implications in the findings of this research for critical care nurses, nurses in other departments and policy makers. The resultant implication for each group of stakeholders promotes the adoption and formulation of effective handover practices and consequently enhanced quality of patient care through transfer of adequate patient information and sense of self-accomplishment among nurses.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMurigi, M., Mbuthia, N., & Meng’anyi, L. (2022). Nursing Handover: Experiences and Perspectives in the Critical Care Unit at Murang’a County Referral Hospital. Journal of Medicine, Nursing & Public Health, 5(3), 35-58. https://doi.org/10.53819/81018102t6043en_US
dc.identifier.issn2706-6606
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.53819/81018102t6043
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/27256
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherStratford Peer Reviewed Journals and Book Publishingen_US
dc.subjectNursing handoveren_US
dc.subjectexperiencesen_US
dc.subjectperspectivesen_US
dc.subjectcritical care uniten_US
dc.titleNursing Handover: Experiences and Perspectives in the Critical Care Unit at Murang’a County Referral Hospitalen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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