Time-motion analysis of research nurse activities in a lung transplant home monitoring study
| Autor: | Ruth Lindquist, Kathleen MacMahon, William N. Robiner, Arin VanWormer, Stanley M. Finkelstein, Bruce R. Lindgren |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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| Zdroj: | Progress in Transplantation. 21:190-199 |
| ISSN: | 2164-6708 1526-9248 |
| DOI: | 10.7182/prtr.21.3.u267v51327m276l2 |
| Popis: | Background—The emergence and subsequent integration of new technologies precipitate changes in roles and work lives of nurses. The nurses' work with home monitoring technologies within a spirometry-based program that transmits pulmonary function data after lung transplantation has characteristics that are distinct from other types of direct patient care. Nurses' changing roles in such programs after transplantation have not been well described.Objective—To describe a time-motion study of 2 research nurses in the context of a home-spirometry study to monitor patients' pulmonary status after lung transplantation.Method—A detailed list of research nurses' 67 routine work-related activities was developed and validated to monitor and record activities of research home monitoring nurses. Two weeks of observations were completed; recordings of a second observer established reliability of observations.Results—In 48.8 hours of observation, 610 tasks related to monitoring of 45 patients were recorded. Task time ran... |
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