Clinical Handover (ISOBAR) for Nurses

This clinical handover course explores a range of standardisation processes for clinical communication and uses 4 contexts to achieve this: bedside handover nurse to nurse handover nurse to doctor handover, and nurse to group handover.

Target Audience

Any health professional who is involved in the handover of patient information.

Learning Outcomes

This course will provide an understanding of: 

• the importance of effective handover, and 
• how the use of an acronym (ISOBAR) can assist in achieving effective handover in the context of: 
• bedside handover, 
• nurse to doctor handover, 
• nurse to nurse handover, and 
• nurse to group handover.