Reporting
Types
Types
A Nurse provides a summary of a patient's condition to another unit or facility.
What is transfer reports?
Both the communicating and the receiving people must be available at the same time
What is face-to-face communication?
Proactive, systematic, nurse-driven, evidence-based intervention that helps nurses anticipate and address patient needs.
What is purposeful rounding.
Links health care professionals immediately and enable nurses to receive and give critical information about patients in a timely fashion.
What is telephone reporting?
A record is available.
What is written communication?
Sending or guiding the patient to another source for assistance.
What is a referral?
Given by the primary nurse to the nurse replacing him or her.
What is change-of-shift report or hand-off report.
Message can be delivered immediately—even to those at a great distance.
What is computer communication?
A group of nurses visit selected patients individually, at each patient’s bedside.
What is nursing care rounds.
Nurses play a crucial role in keeping the patient's family and/or significant others updated about the patient’s condition and progress toward goal achievement.
What is reports to family and/or significant others?
Only the tone of voice and voice inflections can be communicated—no nonverbal messages.
What is telephone communication?
Inviting another professional to evaluate the patient and make recommendations to you about the patient’s treatment.
What is a consultation?