Mapping nurses' activities in surgical hospital wards: A time study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Balancing the number of nursing staff in relation to the number of patients is important for hospitals to remain efficient and optimizing the use of resources. One way to do this is to work with a workload management method. Many workload management methods use a time study to determine how nurses spend their time and to relate this to patient characteristics in order to predict nurse workload.

Objective

In our study, we aim to determine how nurses spend their working day and we will attempt to explain differences between specialized surgical wards.

Setting

The research took place in an academic hospital in the Netherlands. Six surgical wards were included, capacity 15 to 30 beds.

Method

We have used a work sampling methodology where trained observer

SUBMITTER: van den Oetelaar WFJM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5916856 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature