Implications to Nursing Practice and Patient Outcomes

The research question guiding this systematic review is: how can patient participation in nursing bedside handover be enacted, from the perspective of patients, nurses, and from a local implementation perspective. Within this overarching question, three sub questions require addressing:

1) What is the patient’s role in bedside handover? (Research: how the intervention works; QI projects: feasibility of the intervention in practice and how it is shaped to be relevant and sustainable)

2) What are the barriers to patients enacting their role in bedside handover? (Research: why the intervention works; QI projects: salient contextual issues for implementation)

3) What strategies enable patient participation in bedside handover? (Research: why the intervention works; QI projects: salient con- textual issues for implementation)