Definition of an Entrustable Professional Activity for interprofessional patient handover for nurses - an interview study / Definition einer Entrustable Professional Activity zur interprofessionellen Patientenübergabe für Pflegefachpersonen – eine Interviewstudie

Abstract

Interprofessional patient handover between physicians and nurses is considered one of the most important professional activities for ensuring patient safety. Errors in interprofessional patient handover are a major cause of preventable patient harm. For this reason, nurses and physicians are expected to be competent in patient handover at the end of their training or studies. However, the topic of interprofessional patient handover is hardly addressed in German medical and nursing curricula. The concept of Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA), which guarantees a high degree of theory-practice transfer, seems to be a promising teaching-learning approach in this context. An EPA for interprofessional patient handover already exists for the medical profession. However, this EPA is not transferable to the nursing profession and therefore needs to be defined for mono- or interprofessional nursing education.

Keywords

• interprofessional education
• interprofessional collaborative practice
• patient handover
• entrustable professional activities
• nursing
• interprofessionelle ausbildung
• interprofessionelle zusammenarbeit
• patientenübergabe
• entrustable professional activities
• anvertraubare professionelle tätigkeiten
• pflege