What is the patient’s role in bedside handover? What are the barriers to patients enacting their role in bedside handover? What strategies enable patient participation in bedside handover?

Implications to Nursing Practice and Patient Outcomes

The research question guiding this systematic review is: how can patient participation in nursing bedside handover be enacted, from the perspective of patients, nurses, and from a local implementation perspective. Within this overarching question, three sub questions require addressing:

1) What is the patient’s role in bedside handover? (Research: how the intervention works; QI projects: feasibility of the intervention in practice and how it is shaped to be relevant and sustainable)

2) What are the barriers to patients enacting their role in bedside handover? (Research: why the intervention works; QI projects: salient contextual issues for implementation)

3) What strategies enable patient participation in bedside handover? (Research: why the intervention works; QI projects: salient con- textual issues for implementation)