Improving the Patient Experience and Decreasing Patient Anxiety With Nursing Bedside Report.

Purpose: The study's purpose was to explore the patient experience in an intervention group participating in nursing bedside report and the control group not participating.

Design: This descriptive, observational study had 3 objectives: (1) to measure baseline anxiety on admission to the hospital using the Beck Anxiety Inventory, (2) to describe patient self-reported anxiety and patient experiences during hospitalization, and (3) to evaluate the opinions by the intervention group about participating in nursing bedside report.

Methods: This mixed-methods study included quantitative and qualitative data.