The purpose of this article is to establish the communicative norms in nursing handover which are positively necessary for the improvement of nurses' communicative competence during the handover. This research is based on the preceding qualitative research on the nurses' experience about the handover communication. The communicative norms are inferred from nurses' notions about the positive and negative elements of nurses' handover communication reported in the qualitative research. As a result, 39 communicative norms were found in total, and each of those norms could be applied for the information giver, the information recipient, or in both-information giver and information recipient. The norms are classified into 6 categories according to the functions and the meanings: (1) preparing condition and establishment of a relaxed atmosphere for communication, (2) communicative attitudes, (3) arrangement of modes of communication, (4) performance methods of communication, (5) contents of handover, (6) expression modes. These norms could be used as guidelines for the effective communication or the criteria for evaluating the performed communication during the handover.