Educate & remind staff how to consistently solve problems, document findings, and communicate to others patient care issues.

      SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) is an easy-to-remember, concrete mechanism useful for framing any problem, especially critical ones, requiring a clinician’s immediate attention and action. It allows for an easy and yet focused way to set expectations for what will be communicated between members of the team, and is essential for developing collaborative teamwork and in fostering a culture of patient safety.   
      Physicians are finding SBAR communications a welcomed change. Andreas A. Theodorou M.D., Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Chief, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at the University of Arizona and Co-Director for the Center for Quality and Safety at University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona,² experiences first hand the benefits of using SBAR. “When a nurse uses SBAR, physicians often say, ‘This is great. The nurse gets straight to the point, has all the essential pieces of information and I know what they are asking for.’ The guessing game is omitted.”