Implementing bedside handovers in mental health care: Insights from an experience-based co-design

Objectives: Bedside handovers have the potential to provide opportunities to increase patient involvement in mental health care. However, limited research has been conducted on this subject. Methods: In this study, we investigate the suitability of experience-based co-design as a method for designing bedside handover in mental health care.Results: The article discusses the goals of bedside handover, the preferred structure and content of the handover, its location and frequency, and the familiarization involved in it.Conclusions: EBCD proved to be a suitable method of making recommendations for involving patients in nursing handover in a mental healthcare unit of a general hospital. Practice implications: Nurses and mental health care patients agreed on the ISBARRT model to structure bedside handovers.

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This study investigates the suitability of experience-based co-design as a method for designing bedside handover in mental health care, and finds that it is a suitable method for enhancing patient involvement in nursing handovers in a general hospital's mental healthcare unit.