Population
The target population is USAF flight nurses in AD, reserve, and guard units
worldwide. Only flight nurses were selected for this project since they are the individuals
who receive and give patient handoff reports during all AE missions. The literature
reviewed also listed nurses as subjects in various studies on patient handoffs or examined
nursing literature for systematic reviews of descriptive studies (Arora et al., 2009;
Beckett & Kipnis, 2009; Pothier et al., 2005).