Background: Communication is a fundamental necessity for patient security within the healthcare organization. Earlier research within the subject is largely centred around the communication between nurses and patients or nurses and physicians. Research studying communication between nurses and healthcare personnel exist to a much smaller extent.

Aim: To explore communication with nurses within short-time residences from the perspective of the healthcare personnel and describe experiences of communication between nurses and healthcare personnel in the caring of patients at short-time residences.

Method: Questionnaire

Results: The results show that the healthcare personnel hold both good and bad experiences of communication with the nurses. According to the healthcare personnel, the communication is vital to provide good treatment for the patients, but also since certain workgroups function in teams. There is existing routines for communication, and the healthcare personnel experience that these routines functions well. On the contrary there is obscurity concerning routines in acute situations. Preferably, and most often, the communication is verbal. The healthcare personnel sometimes feel that the communication with the nurses is insufficient, but also found some information to be unnecessary.