A prospective longitudinal cohort study of the association between nurses' subjective and objective workload.

ABSTRACT: Critical care nurses have high workloads due to the severity of the disease and the complexity of the treatment and care. Understanding the factors that influence subjective workload as well as the association between subjective and objective workload could lead to new insights to reduce critical care nurses' workload. (1) To describe critical care nurses' subjective and objective workload per shift in a university-affiliated interdisciplinary adult intensive care unit in Switzerland and (2) to explore the association between objective and subjective workload. The study used a prospective longitudinal cohort design. Critical care nurses completed the adapted Questionnaire on the Experience and Evaluation of Work 2.0 (QEEW2.0) to assess the subjective workload after every shift for four wee

SUBMITTER: Fischbacher S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11442685 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature