Investigation and analysis of nurse' s worktime and walk miles in a hospital
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-2907.2010.07.039
- VernacularTitle:某医院护士上班时间及行走里程的调查分析
- Author:
Qing-Ling ZHANG
1
;
Jun-Hua LIU
;
Gang-Min XIE
;
Ling-Ling CHU
;
Yu-Fu LIU
;
Xia LUO
Author Information
1. 第三军医大学附属新桥医院
- Keywords:
Nursing activities;
Time distribution;
Work-hour measurement;
Nursing human resource
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2010;16(7):826-828
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To measure nurses' work time distribution in direct nursing, indirect nursing, non-nursing activity and personal activity and effective work hour and walk miles. Methods Observers recorded nurses' work time cost on each activity and walk miles by one-to-one following-up at Department of Gastroenterology and General Surgery in a Grade-A hospital. Results Direct nursing time made up 35. 75 % , indirect time 53. 19 % , non-nursing activity 0. 49 % ; personal activity 10. 56 %. The effective working time among day work nurses was 6.80 and 6.28 in the two Department respectively, while 6. 10 and 5.36 among shift nurses. An average walk miles were about 4. 36 km/d/nurse, 4. 64 km among day work nurses and 3. 67 km among night work nurses. Conclusions Indirect nursing cost too much time while some very important direct nursing items cost too little time. Nurses' actual effective work-hour is higher than the standard one. Nurses' walk miles are positively correlated with workload. Hospital should dynamically deploy nursing human resource according to all kinds of criterion and nosocomial practice. In the meantime, long effective mechanism should be established to ensure that patients can obtain suitable nursing without waste of manpower.
