Having different perspectives on the transfer of responsibility The three professional groups described different perspectives on the transfer of responsibility. The nurse anaesthetists handed over their responsibility when all the information was transferred to the receiver, and when they left the PACU. The anaesthesiologists described handing over responsibility to other physicians, but that their overall responsibility (accountability) remained even after handover to a PACU nurse. The PACU nurses described that they assumed the responsibility when they had control over the patient’s condition. Uncertainty about responsibility arose when the nurse anaesthetist provided incomplete information about the patient or when the nurse anaesthetist failed to complete tasks that he/she should have completed prior to the handover.