How much time do nurses have for patients? a longitudinal study quantifying hospital nurses' patterns of task time distribution and interactions with health professionals
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- 24 November 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Health Services Research
- Vol. 11 (1), 319
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-319
Abstract
Time nurses spend with patients is associated with improved patient outcomes, reduced errors, and patient and nurse satisfaction. Few studies have measured how nurses distribute their time across tasks. We aimed to quantify how nurses distribute their time across tasks, with patients, in individual tasks, and engagement with other health care providers; and how work patterns changed over a two year period.Keywords
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