In a regional hospital, the patients who were transferred from the emergency room to the intensive care unit (ICU) accounted for 52.43% of the total patients staying in the ICU, but the patients in the emergency room who were transferred to the ICU accounted for only 69.49% based on an average complete change of shift. To improve this condition, a special committee was formed to analyze the causes of this incomplete change of shifts. Their investigations showed that there was no standard form used in shift changes and, because only patient's resumes were used, this resulted in an incomplete exchange of information from one nurse to another. In addition, the idea of the importance of changing shifts efficiently was not promoted so that the staff had different views about what should be done. Therefore, the solution was to convene a consensus meeting with the aim of making a standard instruction form for ward shifts. This would be used not only for the very sick patients being transferred from the emergency room to the ICU but also to change shifts. The results showed that the average complete rate of shift change rose from 69.49% to 90.90% after using the standard instruction form for ward shifts.