Nurse productivity: using evidence to enhance nurses' use of time.
| Autor: | Morgan S; England. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987) [Nurs Stand] 2024 May 01; Vol. 39 (5), pp. 30-34. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Feb 12. |
| DOI: | 10.7748/ns.2024.e12251 |
| Abstrakt: | The UK is experiencing a nursing shortage, making it challenging to maintain the staffing levels required to deliver effective patient care. One way of enhancing the care delivered by the existing workforce could be to optimise nurse productivity; however, previous efforts to do this have been largely ineffective, due in part to a focus on the processes of care delivery rather than the nursing activities within these processes. In this article, the author explores the concept of nurse productivity and suggests that enhancing productivity requires the identification of nursing activities and consideration of how these may be undertaken in a more time-efficient manner - or removed altogether. The author discusses two such activities: intentional (hourly) rounding, and fixed-time manual vital signs for patients on general wards. The author also considers the potential of using automatic continuous remote monitoring on general hospital wards to free up nurses' time for other care activities. Competing Interests: None declared (© 2024 RCN Publishing Company Ltd. All rights reserved. Not to be copied, transmitted or recorded in any way, in whole or part, without prior permission of the publishers.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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