title: Confidentiality during staff reports at the bedside.
abstract: This paper describes a small-scale qualitative study in an acute elderly care setting using the bedside approach to nursing hand-over reporting. The aim of the study was to examine the attitudes of staff and patients while conducting bedside reporting instead of a more traditional approach to report-giving. The main focus was to examine attitudes to confidentiality, the outcome of which concludes that the nursing staff perceived less maintenance of confidentiality than patients believed they had experienced.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Howell
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D015399:Nursing Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires