The shift leader going off duty hands over report to all the nursing staff coming on duty.
All the staff when coming on duty, gets together at the duty station after signing the attendance register and the work allocation sheet for the day. The shift leader shares information on the condition, special needs and care rendered to every resident during the past shift or past days when the shift coming on duty has not been working the previous shift. Information regarding doctor’s and family visits or telephone calls, changes in prescriptions and special requests by family members are mentioned.
Thereafter information that is diarised for the day is handed over, e.g. birthdays of staff and residents, doctor’s appointments, scheduled pathology tests that need to be done, booked family visits, planned activities for the residents and scheduled meetings and training sessions for the staff.
The nursing staff also makes use of a message book to convey important information to each other. The message book should be read by every person at the beginning of the shift to find out whether there is a message for them.
