Table of Contents
REQUIREMENTS #
- Wheelchair or Stretcher if necessary
- Patient’s medication(s)
- Patient’s personal belongings
- Patient’s folder (Electronic/Manual)
- Referral form
- Accompanying nurse(s)
- Ambulance (where necessary)
STEPS #
- Inform patient and relative(s) about the transfer and give reasons
- Allay patient’s fears and anxiety
- Ensure that the prescriber has signed transfer document
- Inform the unit/ward or the facility patient is being transferred to (name, condition, medications, test, time etc.)
- Ensure that all documents are completely signed
- Assist patient to pack belongings and ensure no ward property or other patient’s item(s) is/are taken
- Record transfer in necessary documents (file movement, nurses’ notes)
- Accompany patient to the unit/ward or facility and introduce him/her to the receiving nurse
- Hand over patient’s folder/referral form, medication(s) and belongings to receiving nurse
- Check patient’s items with receiving nurse
- Ask the receiving nurse for any further questions regarding the patient’s transfer
- Express appreciation to patient and receiving nurse and bid them farewell
- Ensure that bed linen, mattress and bedstead are disinfected
- Perform hand hygiene
- Inform other departments within the hospital of the patient’s change in location
- Document in the admission and discharge book, Daily ward State and nurses’ notes