Development of a mobile application for emergency shift handovers using the National Early Warning Score.

Objective: To develop and validate a prototype of a mobile application shift handover between nurses in the emergency room using a severity scale.

Method: This is a technological tool carried out at the Universidade Estadual de Maringá using design thinking, divided into four phases: discovering, defining, developing, and delivering. To structure the information, a checklist was used based on the Situation Background Assessment Recommendation, and to categorize patients in terms of severity, the National Early Warning Score was used.