Nursing handover research project: How is nursing handover talked about in the literature?

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Aim
\nThe aim of this research project is to explore how nursing handover is talked about within current, scholarly, peer reviewed, published nursing literature from 2004-2010. 
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\nBackground
\nPart of most nurses’ daily reality is nursing handover. In each hospital where I have worked there seemed to be no clear policy for delivering handover and each nurse chose their own method, making handover inconsistent. The value placed on handover varied from nurse to nurse, and area to area.
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\nMethod
\nA constructionist and social constructionist epistemology was used to support this research. A constructionist viewpoint allows nursing handover reality to gain meaning in a social context. The analysis focused on the literature’s discursive constructions of nursing handover. The first three steps of Gee’s (2005) discourse analysis framework; significance, activities and identities were used to look at the constructs of handover and what is gained by such constr

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