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Nursing Shift Handover
Write a nursing shift handover for a ward, unit or community caseload in ISBAR order, patient by patient, with the sickest first, outstanding tasks timed and owned, and the risks the next shift must watch. Use when asked to write my handover, structure a shift report, prepare bedside handover notes, hand over my patients, or tidy these handover notes. Produces a prioritised handover sheet per patient, a ward-level watch list, and a list of tasks due in the next shift. Distinct from clinical-case-summary, which presents one case in depth.
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⬇ Add to Claude (works in Duet)
📱 Use as an app
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What changed
🗣 Say this to your agent
“Turn these scribbled notes into an ISBAR handover for the night shift.”“I have eight patients. Help me hand over the two I am worried about first.”“Write a bedside handover sheet from this list of beds and jobs.”“What is still outstanding for the next shift from these notes?”“Run this skill in your browser: https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/skill/nursing-shift-handover.html”
What to give it
▸Setting and shift — ward or unit type, shift ending, number of patients
▸For each patient — bed or identifier, age band, reason for admission, key history, allergies
▸Latest observations and early warning score with the — time taken, and the trend
▸What changed this shift — new orders, procedures, falls, family concerns, mood or behaviour
▸Outstanding items — results awaited, reviews requested, medicines due, fluid balance, wound care, discharge steps
▸Escalations already made, to whom, and the response
▸Local handover format if the organisation mandates one — (follow it over this template) Remind the user once: use bed numbers or initials unless their organisation has approved this tool for identifiable patient data.
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Patients are ordered by concern and the reason for the order is written down
✓Every observation has a time, and scores show a trend
✓Every outstanding task has a time and an owner
✓Allergies and resuscitation status appear for every patient, or are marked "not supplied"
✓No value, drug or dose appears that was not in the input
✓Escalation triggers are stated for patients of concern
⚠️ What it refuses to do
**Do not order by bed number.** The sickest patient goes first.
**Do not write "stable" without the observations that support it.**
**Do not fill gaps.** A missing score is written as missing.
**Do not include the whole history.** Only what changes care this shift.
**Do not give clinical advice.** Record the plan the team has set and the trigger to escalate.
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y -p pm-claude-skills pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
<div data-pm-skill="nursing-shift-handover"></div>
<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>💬 Discussion
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