A study on difficulty measurement of nursing items in general wards in level three grade A hospitals in Beijing
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-2907.2015.14.006
- VernacularTitle:北京地区三级甲等医院普通病房适于难度评价的护理项目的研究
- Author:
Jing LENG
1
;
Yan ZHANG
;
Huaping LIU
;
Shengxiao NIE
;
Zhenhui WANG
;
Hong SUN
Author Information
1. 100730 北京医院护理部
- Keywords:
Nursing administration research;
Nursing workload;
Difficulty assessment;
Time measurement;
Nursing items
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2015;(14):1634-1638
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To explore how to define the difficulty and time measurement of nursing items in general wards in level three grade A hospital in Beijing, so as to provide evidence for nursing workload measurement. Methods By literature review, we self-designed nursing items scale, and selected 30 nurses conveniently for the each item assessment of workload. After screening nursing items again, 10 nurse clinicians had been chosen for semi-structure interview. Finally, we selected 9 nurse clinicians to take part in the discussion meeting, in order to acquire a suitable difficulty assessment and time measurement of nursing items. Results Our study confirmed 64 nursing items at the end, and all items were suitable for difficulty assessment and time measurement, and included the work items of personal care assistant and field staffs, but never contained some items, which could not measure time, such as grade one nursing. Conclusions The nursing items had some certain development and updating recently in level three grade A hospital in Beijing, and this study acquires 64 nursing items, which are all normal clinical nursing activities and suitable for difficulty assessment and time measurement, can be cornerstone for a reasonable and accurate nursing workload measurement.
