ISBAR Approach to Handover: Aligning with National Safety Standards

This presentation provides an overview of the ISBAR (Introduction, Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation) approach to handover in healthcare settings and its alignment with national safety standards governing acute and aged care. It highlights how ISBAR facilitates clear and structured communication between healthcare professionals, ensuring patient safety during information transfer. The presentation discusses key actions and elements within the communicating for safety national standards, emphasizing the importance of preparing and scheduling clinical handovers, having appropriate patient information, and being aware of patient preferences. It also addresses the benefits of ISBAR, such as improved information flow, reduced handover length, and increased confidence among healthcare providers. Ultimately, the presentation concludes that the implementation of ISBAR contributes to enhanced patient safety and improved performance of healthcare professionals.

DIGITAL PRESENTATION

TABLE OF CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• MAIN BODY
• Discussing how ISBAR approach to handover aligns to communicating for safety national standards that
govern acute and aged care.
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
• ISBAR is one of those approaches or concepts that specify the improvement of communication and flow of
information in the context of health care setting in term of handover.
• This approach defines simple way to structure and plan communication while transferring information with other
health care professional, for purpose of making patients safety at priority.
• It is quite essential and beneficial process or concept in regard to information handover term.
• Communicating safety standard is set of instructions and guidance that a service provider take into their
consideration, in order to handover info about patients safely (Communicating for Safety Standard, 2022).
• The current presentation will explain how ISBAR approach to handover aligns to communicating for safely
national standards that govern acute & aged care.

DISCUSSING HOW ISBAR APPROACH TO HANDOVER ALIGNS
TO COMMUNICATING FOR SAFETY NATIONAL STANDARDS
• ISBAR stands for Introduction, Situation, Background
Assessment, Recommendation, which drives that attention of
individual toward organizing conversation into useful and essential
components.
• This term aligns to communicating for safely national standard that
govern aged care, and this standard encompasses key actions that
is important for professional to take into their consideration and
conduct into practical manner.

CONT..
• According to, Haddeland and et.al., (2022) 6.7 element included key actions that are required for clinicians to
conduct into practical manner that align to communicating for safety national standards.
• This component may specify actions that improve process of communication regarding information handover to
one person to another in health care organizations about patient’s healthcare history.
• Element 6.8, may define different actions that clinicians utilize such as to prepare and schedule clinical
handover, have appropriate information in regard the same and be aware of patient’s aim as well as preferences.
• ISBAR approach follow standard 6 and elements that is encompasses such as 6.7 and 6.8, in term of considering
each action and conducting into practical manner.

CONT..
• In the view of, Chien and et.al., (2022) ISBAR concept is based on SBAR, that was developed by the US Navy in order to
assure clear, and precise communication between nuclear subsurface. It may endorse by world health organization that
caters a standardized method to interact which may utilized in a wide range of clinical context, such as shift changeover,
individual patient transfer for a specific test or a health care appointment.
• Haddeland and et.al., (2022) stated that ISBAR approach to handover effectively align to communicating for safety national
standard in term of follow National Safety & Quality health services rules such as prepare and schedule clinical handover.
• On the other hand, Dahm and et.al., (2022) defined that by having appropriate information at clinical handover, and being
aware of each patient aim and preferences, ISBAR method align to communicate for safety national standard that effectively
and appropriately govern aged and acute care.

CONT..
• Kaltoft and et.al., (2022) said that ISBAR concept effective represent a standardized method or process related to
communication that align it with communicating for safety in the health care setting for aged care, which might
be utilized in any situation.
• It is fact that by improving safety in transfer of essential information in health care organizations, ISBAR
approach help to increase the extent to which patients recover from major diseased in effective manner.
• According to the concept, it is important for service provider to support patients, their families and carers to be
engaged in clinical handover in term of considering their needs and requirement that is essential to place in the
list of priority at top (Cuchna, Manspeaker and Wix, 2021).
• .

CONT..
• ISBAR is beneficial and essential for individual in term of providing key advantages such as handover occurring
with overall information, and eliminate missed and duplication of info that put adverse impact on aged care.
• Chien and et.al., (2022) contradict that reduction related to length of handover is the key benefit of ISBAR
approach implication in health care setting, as it may concentrate on brief and clear communication in the
workplace.
• It supports to provide confidence to both parties with comprehensive suggestions in a effective and professional
terms, that a care provider consider and follow the same to make each suggestion practical.

CONT..
• Discussion on the ISBAR approach, it has been examined the importance of staff members and perceptions of
communication between medical professionals, experts.
• Typically, it focuses on the safety attitudes as well as psychological empowerment.
• It prior to manage and control the implementation of communication, focuses on the concept of ISBAR tools in
the context of clinical handover.
• Investigation on the changes of medical treatment, implementing platform of ISBAR to improve the level of
communication between medical experts, professionals.

CONCLUSION
• From above discussion, it has been summarized that ISBAR has contributed to increased and improved
the performance of health care professionals in term of increasing the process of communication or flow
of information sharing.
• It has been identified from above study that ISBAR ensured health care setting or organization to provide
better care to aged and maintain confidently in the workplace where they are accountable to improve
patients health.
• Furthermore, by summing up above discussion, it has been concluded that implication of ISBAR had
contributed to improve or increase patients safety.

REFERENCES
• Burgess, A and et.al., 2020. Teaching clinical handover with ISBAR. BMC medical education. 20(2). pp.1-8.
• Chien, L. J and et.al., 2022. Improving patient‐centred care through a tailored intervention addressing nursing
clinical handover communication in its organizational and cultural context. Journal of advanced nursing. 78(5).
pp.1413-1430.
• Cuchna, J., Manspeaker, S. and Wix, A., 2021. Promoting Interprofessional Communication through Situation,
Background, Assessment, and Recommendation (SBAR): An Educational Technique. Athletic Training
Education Journal. 16(4). pp.255-261.