SBAR TRAINING

The program, called SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation) for Long Term Care, provides nurses and physicians with a standardized framework for communicating critical information to and among members of a patient's health care team. This framework is essential to the safe and efficient care of patients because it helps nurses and physicians communicate information more effectively with each other in a concise and consistent manner.

Originally developed by Safer Healthcare for use by hospitals and other acute care facilities, SBAR for Long Term Care was designed with the assistance of Education Solutions to enhance the quality of nurse-to-nurse and nurse-to-physician communications and promote patient safety in long term care facilities and other sub-acute units.
Key components of the training program include seminars and workshops, which provide a detailed overview of the SBAR framework and discuss the importance of SBAR in providing clear, concise and standardized communications, especially during physician updates, patient transfers and shift changes. The seminars also provide a comprehensive analysis of physical assessment in the geriatric patient and an interactive review of patient case studies that incorporate the use of SBAR.

SBAR TOOLKIT for Long Term Care Enhance the communication skills of nurses working in the extended care industry. The toolkit, which is available through Education Solutions, facilitates compliance with JCAHO patient safety goals by standardizing hand-off communications and providing opportunities for nurses and physicians to ask and respond to questions. In addition, nurses who attend an SBAR seminar or workshop are eligible to receive contact hours.