Presents findings from a study to identify causes of inefficiency in nursing work processes and unit design by measuring the time and energy nurses spend on various activities, their locations, the distances they travel, and their physiologic responses.
Title: A 36-Hospital Time and Motion Study: How Do Medical-Surgical Nurses Spend Their Time?
Publication date 2008-06-05
Publication Year 2008
Authors
Ann Hendrich
, Boguslaw A. Skierczynski
, Marilyn Chow
, Zhenqiang Lu
Copyright holder(s)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Geographical Focus
North America / United States
Keywords
nursing practice
, nurse station
, patient room
, patient
, care coordination
Document type
Report/Whitepaper
Language
English
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