Public Health

  Safety Critical Communication Hospital administration has asked you to develop a memo explaining how to use the SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendations) as a tool for safety critical communication during shift change among healthcare professionals. In the memo that you will be preparing, remember to address the following: The importance of critical safety communication At least two principles of safety-critical communications A description of the SBAR tool A hypothetical example of how to use each element of the SBAR tool, meaning examples of each of the following: Situation Background Assessment Recommendations To see an example of the structure of a memo, view the following memo, , developed by Purdue OWL.