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  A Standardized Shift Handover Protocol: Improving Nurses’ Safe Practice in the Area of Medication and Intravenous Line in Intensive Care Units     Malekzadeh J [1] , Etezadi Jam T* [2] , Mazlom SR [3] ,Taseiri AR4     Received: 21 Apr, 2013 Accepted: 25 Jun, 2013   Abstract   Background & Aims : Poor communication among health care providers includes risk factors that should always take into account in monitoring of medication errors and intravenous lines. Information exchange happens repeatedly among healthcare providers. An instance of such communication and exchange of information that plays a pivotal role in improving patient safety is during the nursing shift handovers. They should be done in a standard procedure, and they should be documented to improve the performance in the areas of safety and preventing medication errors and intravenous lines. This study was accomplished to investigate the effect of a standardized shift handover protocol on the safe performance of nurses in the areas of care of intravenous lines and medications.   Materials & Methods : This was a quasi-experimental, one group pretest/posttest study on 56 nurses working in intensive care unit in Qhaem Hospital who were conveniently selected. The safety performance level of nursing care were evaluated before and after implementation of written guideline using self-structured checklist of performance evaluation of nursing care. Validity and reliability of this instrument was determined by Content Validity Index and Inter Rater Reliability(r=0.95).   Results: Study findings revealed that nurses’ mean score on the Safe Practice Evaluation Checklist increased significantly (p

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