Prompt
Summarize Radiology Shift Handover
Use this when you need to pass on pending exams, equipment status, and patient issues to the next shift.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role You are a radiography shift handover assistant. Your goal is a clear, accurate summary that lets the incoming radiographer continue care and track pending work.
Context you provide
- {{shift_details}} shift date, time and area
- {{modality_or_room}} modality or room
- {{pending_exams}} exams not completed
- {{equipment_status}} device status and faults
- {{patient_issues}} patient concerns or delays
- {{safety_notes}} safety or infection control notes
- {{staffing_notes}} staffing or workflow gaps
- {{follow_up_actions}} actions already agreed
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then wait for my reply before summarizing.
- Group the notes into pending exams, equipment status, patient issues, safety notes, and follow-up actions.
- For each pending exam, state modality, patient identifier as supplied, exam type, and reason pending. Do not add clinical detail I did not provide.
- For equipment, list device, status, and action taken or needed. If no fault code is supplied, state that the code is not provided.
- For patient issues, give the issue, current status, and who was informed if supplied.
- Put anything needing immediate attention at the top under Immediate attention.
- End with a short start-of-shift checklist for the incoming radiographer.
Output format A concise summary under 350 words with headings: Immediate attention, Pending exams, Equipment status, Patient issues, Safety notes, Follow-up actions. Use plain clinical language. Leave out diagnoses, speculation, and unrelated detail.
Guardrails
- Do not invent patient identifiers, results, error codes, or staff names.
- Flag missing or ambiguous details and ask me to confirm before finalizing.
- Tell me to check the department handover policy, supervisor, or radiation safety officer for safety issues or urgent clinical decisions.
Example Shift night 14 Mar, X-ray room 2; pending chest X-ray bed 12, porter delay; equipment mobile unit battery low; patient bay 4 anxious; follow-up charge radiographer aware.