PT handover times are increasingly more important and every minute counts!

The hand-over time for you to record in eMEDS refers to when the patient goes into the bed from the cot (not when you complete your report and not when you restock the unit).

Please try to record the time as close to the real time as you can.

Note from the EMS leadership: 

In reality, we know that you could get a room, put the patient in a bed and then sit there waiting for a nurse to take report and care of the patient for a long time.  A strict reading of Emtala would suggest that the hospital accepts the patient when the charge nurse takes a brief report and assigns a bed. However, when looking for a benchmark that we (MCFRS) and the hospitals could agree upon, the act of physically putting the patient on the bed seemed to be easiest and less prone to misinterpretation.