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Ichihara Kiyoshi

Affiliate Master Yamaguchi University

Improvement of nursing workload by a novel user- aimed assessment software in a tertiary care hospital

The bulletin of the Yamaguchi Medical School Volume 69 Issue 3-4 Page 57-66
published_at 2022-12
A050069000304
[fulltext] 5.01 MB
Title
Improvement of nursing workload by a novel user- aimed assessment software in a tertiary care hospital
Abstract
Abstract Background: Expanding nursing workload is a worldwide problem. However, any nursing workload assessment (NWA) tool requires complicated analyses of the nursing job profile. To determine the imbalance in time assignments across all nursing operations and to reduce nursing workload, a nursing job survey was conducted. Methods: A total of 25 major job categories, common to all hospital wards, were identified, and an NWA tool was developed for efficient analyses to feature easy/flexible entry of the time spent for each job category and real-time visual profiling of job time allocation. The profile could be divided by job categories, wards, shifts, and years. Results: From the preliminary analyses, undesirable time allocation was revealed in several job categories, especially the time for recording and other nonessential nursing operations. Using the analytical functions of the NWA tool between 2014 and 2016, a series of corrective measures were successfully taken to many job categories, and they were found to be effective. Consequently, excessive overtime workload was reduced from 125 min/day/nurse in 2014 to 100 and 100 min/day/ nurse in 2015 and 2016, respectively. Conclusion: Notable improvements in nursing workload and time allocation for attentive patient care could be achieved employing the novel user-aimed NWA tool.
Creators Shimizu Yumi
Creators Satou Kazutaka
Creators Manago Noriko
Creators Itou Masako
Creators Ichihara Kiyoshi
Affiliate Master Yamaguchi University
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Creators Maekawa Tsuyoshi
Affiliate Master Yamaguchi University
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Source Identifiers [PISSN] 0513-1812 [EISSN] 2436-696X
Creator Keywords
nursing workload assessment tool job categories corrective measures overtime work
Languages eng
Resource Type departmental bulletin paper
Publishers Yamaguchi University School of Medicine
Date Issued 2022-12
File Version Version of Record
Access Rights open access
Schools 大学院医学系研究科