A8 Innovative approaches to enhancing clinical handover

A8 Innovative approaches to enhancing clinical handover

Format: Interactive presentations and group work

This session covers the work of team of international scholars working in clinical handover, enhancing the handover practices of frontline staff using innovative methods. Written, taped, and video material will form stimuli for this practical workshop.

After this session you will be able to:

• Understand the critical roles of accountability and responsibility in successful handover
• Describe the five most favoured structural improvement methods used to improve clinical handover
• Distinguish structural (top-down) handover improvements from observational and reflexive (bottom-up) ones
• Design clinical handover improvement methodologies that suit your organisation and specialty

Christine Jorm, Senior Medical Advisor, Australian Commission on Safety And Quality in Health Care; Rick Iedema, Professor, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia