Developing an Operating Room-to-Intensive Care Unit Patient Handover Checklist: A Combined Quantitative and Qualitative Research Design.

This article reports a study aimed at developing and validating an Operating Room-to-ICU Patient Handover checklist. Deficient or absent clinical handovers, or failures to transfer information, responsibility, and accountability can have unwanted consequences for hospitalized patients. Clinical handovers are practiced every day, in many ways, in all institutional health care settings.

Critical care nurses' perception of barriers and supportive behaviors in end-of-life care.

Aim: To investigate critical care nurses' perceptions of barriers and supportive behaviors in providing end of life (EOL) care to dying patients and their families.

Methods: The study involved a convenient sample of 70 nurses who were involved in caring for critically ill patients. Data were collected using a structured interview sheet.