A Workload Analysis of a Visiting Nursing Service based on a Health Center in Seoul.
10.4040/jkan.2003.33.7.1018
- Author:
Ho Sihn RYU
1
;
Eun Sook PARK
;
Young Joo PARK
;
Kuem Sun HAN
;
Ji Young LIM
Author Information
1. College of Nursing, Korea University, Korea. hosihn@korea.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article ; English Abstract
- Keywords:
Visiting Nurse;
Workload
- MeSH:
Cross-Sectional Studies;
Family Health;
Hand Strength;
Humans;
Methods;
Nurses, Community Health;
Nursing Services*;
Nursing*;
Prospective Studies;
Seoul*
- From:
Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
2003;33(7):1018-1027
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
PURPOSE: This study focused on analysing the workload of visiting nurses based on a health center. METHOD: A Prospective descriptive analysis of self-records for workload data from 115 visiting nurses during 4 weeks was done. In addition, a cross-sectional analysis of linked data to grasp the priority of visiting nursing services from 155 visiting nurses at the 25 health centers in Seoul. RESULT: Time allocation that was performed on all nursing workload of visiting nurses was identified as follows: First, the inside workload of the health center took up 60% of all visiting nurse activities. Second, providing direct nursing care(caseload) took up 25%. Third, outside nursing activities excluding the caseload provided in the health center took up 15% of all working time. Fourth, the core works to have a high priority among visiting nursing activities were family health assessment, planning and evaluation of a visiting nursing program, personal health assessment, and so forth. CONCLUSION: The workload of a visiting nurse suggests that the caseload of visiting nurses in a health center needs to be increased. Also, our results will contribute to baseline data used to establish a proper visiting nurses infrastructure based on the demand of visiting nursing services.
