ENCORE! #147: Let’s Talk SBAR in Nursing

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Straight A Nursing

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Every other week I'm republishing one of my most popular or impactful episodes and adding an update, new insight, or context that will help you benefit from it even more. This week I'm highlighting Episode 147, which is all about SBAR communication. One thing I cannot stress enough with SBAR is that practice really does make perfect. So, give this one a listen and perfect your SBAR game! ___________________ Full Transcript – Read the article and view references FREE CLASS – If all you’ve heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES…you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Crucial Concepts Bootcamp – Start nursing school ahead of the game, or reset after a difficult first semester with my nursing school prep course, Crucial Concepts Bootcamp. Learn key foundation concepts, organization and time management, dosage calculations, and so much more. Clinical Success Pack – One of the best ways to fast-track your clinical learning is having the right tools. This pack includes report sheets, sheets to help you plan your day, a clinical debrief form, and a patient safety cheat sheet. Episode 7 – How to give end-of-shift report using SBAR SBAR End of Shift Report – Read the article breaking down how to use SBAR for your end of shift report. 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight A Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.6	Hello and welcome to an encore episode of the Straight A Nursing podcast where I pull something
0:37.2	from the archive that I
0:38.4	still think is really, really important, and I want to make sure you don't miss it. So in this
0:43.6	episode, I'm talking about S-Barr. And I'm talking about it as a way to quickly and effectively
0:51.8	and efficiently communicate changes in patient condition.
0:55.9	Like if you're calling the physician to say, you know, that your patient's hypotensive and
1:00.8	they need help, right?
1:02.0	But you can also use S-Barr to give end of shift report.
1:06.4	So I didn't want you to think that S-Barr was only used for these quicky communications, because you
1:12.2	may hear people say, oh, did you give S-Bar report? Or let's get ready to give S-Bar report at
1:19.4	shift change, because S-Bar can be utilized in that format as well. It's a little bit different.
1:26.4	And if you do want to dive deeper into this, I do go through
1:30.1	how to give report at the end of your shift using the S-bar format, what information to include,
1:36.6	how to sound like a pro, how to do it succinctly, and include the information that you need to
1:41.5	include. I break all of that down for you inside Crucial Concepts Boot Camp
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