Bedside Report

My hospital is implementing a bedside report. It is mandatory to do this. Many of the nurses are resistent to this. It has good evidence base practise that it works well. Although it seems difficult to do, with family there, patient sleeping and such. How can I make this part of my practise?
I like it. We ask family to leave for a few moments, and if the patient doesn't care, they'll say "It's okay if they stay" (that's what usually happens). We wake the patients for bedside report. We thought that was going to be awful, but it turned out that very few people mind and most people actually like it--they told our manager this, repeatedly. When we had long-term patients, depending on the person either we wouldn't wake them anymore or we'd just wake them to say "Hey, it's me again, I'll see you when I wake up".My floor had good buy-in, but other floors didn't. This made it hard when we had float nurses, because they would try to refuse to take (or give) bedside report. We just smiled and waited when they said "Oh, I don't want to do that garbage." Formulate a plan for what you're going to say (this is an adjustment, but doesn't take too long), don't give report without acknowledging the patient (don't just do your regular report only standing at the bedside), and use the format to your benefit--show the things you currently have to tell, like where a dressing is and what the settings are on the PCA.

You have NO CHOICE to make this part of your practice.See the recent threads regarding bedside report. Management feels this is mandatory to fulfill the customer service model.Patients want to see the nurse they learned to trust on the off -going shift.. hand over their care to the next shift.Of course, you will not give the negative points in front of the patient. This now requires a '"separate" and additional side report."This patient is a drug seeker, this patient's family is demanding," etc.Just another task we must undertake ...

My pet peeve.Two separate threads on the same subject within days/hours of each other. *sigh

Quote from Been there,done thatYou have NO CHOICE to make this part of your practice.See the recent threads regarding bedside report. Management feels this is mandatory to fulfill the customer service model.Patients want to see the nurse they learned to trust on the off -going shift.. hand over their care to the next shift.Of course, you will not give the negative points in front of the patient. This now requires a '"separate" and additional side report."This patient is a drug seeker, this patient's family is demanding," etc.Just another task we must undertake ...