| Subject: | Effective “Hand-Off” Communication for Surgical Patients |
| Category: | The Joint Commission (TJC)
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| Published: | Fri, 11 May 2007 - 12:00 am |
| The Joint Commission’s (JC) National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) 2E requires hospitals to increase their focus on “hand-off” communications. Specifically, NPSG 2E states that hospitals must implement a standardized approach to “hand-off” communications, including an opportunity to ask and respond to questions.
The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has recently released a toolkit (available free of charge on their website, a link to which is located in the references) that... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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