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Area of Science:

  • Nursing
  • Healthcare Quality
  • Patient Safety

Background:

  • Nursing handoff is crucial for continuity of care, quality, and patient safety.
  • Effective handoff requires nurses to select, interpret, and convey essential patient information.
  • Assessing nursing handoff competency is vital for optimizing patient care outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a scale for measuring nursing handoff competency.
  • To provide a tool for evaluating nurses' ability to perform effective patient handoffs.
  • To establish a reliable method for identifying training needs in nursing handoff.

Main Methods:

  • Methodological research design involving scale development and validation.
  • Data collected from 496 clinical nurses in South Korea across various hospital settings.
  • Scale development included literature review, interviews, validity and reliability testing, and standard setting.

Main Results:

  • A 25-item, 4-point Likert scale was developed, measuring four factors: knowledge, information identification, judgment/transfer, and supportive relationships.
  • Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed construct validity, criterion-related validity, and discrimination validity.
  • The scale demonstrated high reliability (Cronbach's α = .912) with a cut-off score of 0.72 for satisfied/unsatisfied competency.

Conclusions:

  • The developed scale effectively evaluates nursing handoff competencies.
  • Results can guide the selection of nurses for training and inform the design of education programs.
  • This tool supports targeted interventions to enhance nursing handoff practices and patient safety.