Congruence Between Intershift Reports and Patients' Actual Conditions
Judith A. Richard · Journal of Nursing Scholarship · 1988
After listening to 57 intershift reports on adult medical‐surgical units of an 800‐bed metropolitan hospital, distributed over day, evening and night shifts, this investigator verified the reports by checking each patient. Predetermined pertinent items were analyzed for congruence, omissions and omissions resulting in incongruence. Since discrepancies occurred, a means for verifying the intershift report may need to be addressed as a standard of care for the profession of nursing.