PMID- 9070779
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19971120
LR  - 20061115
IS  - 0210-5020 (Print)
IS  - 0210-5020 (Linking)
VI  - 19
IP  - 220
DP  - 1996 Dec
TI  - [Nursing achievement. Measurement of nursing time].
PG  - 22-7
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To study the nursing duties according to pathology, measuring the time 
      required to give the necessary patient care. Both direct and indirect activities 
      were analyzed. The patients were classified according to the Diagnostically 
      Related Group (DRG) system. METHODS: The study was conducted with hospitalized 
      ophthalmology patients. To increase accuracy the different methods of measuring 
      the work loads were adjusted. A modified Delphi method was used as a time 
      standard. The amount of time spent on direct and indirect activities per patient 
      was analyzed according to the DRG for each day in the hospital as well as each 
      shift. Differences between pathologies were also accounted for. RESULTS: The 
      patients in the various groups had the following mean times per activity: DRG 
      036-1010.5 minutes; DRG 042 912.3 minutes; DRG 039-335.3 minutes; DRG 040-302.9 
      minutes. There are some significant differences between some pathologies but if 
      they are adjusted for their average say they are not significant. CONCLUSION: The 
      work load of ophthalmology nurses depends basically in the average stay in the 
      hospital and not the pathology.
FAU - Riu i Camps, M
AU  - Riu i Camps M
AD  - Servicio de Estudios, Instituto Municipal de Asistencia Sanitaria (IMAS), 
      Barcelona.
FAU - Villares Garcia, J
AU  - Villares Garcia J
FAU - Castells i Oliveres, X
AU  - Castells i Oliveres X
FAU - Gili i Ripoll, P
AU  - Gili i Ripoll P
LA  - spa
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
TT  - Producto enfermero. Medida del tiempo por procesos.
PL  - Spain
TA  - Rev Enferm
JT  - Revista de enfermeria (Barcelona, Spain)
JID - 8309920
MH  - Diagnosis-Related Groups
MH  - Efficiency, Organizational
MH  - Eye Diseases/nursing
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Nursing Process
MH  - Time Factors
EDAT- 1996/12/01 00:00
MHDA- 1996/12/01 00:01
CRDT- 1996/12/01 00:00
PHST- 1996/12/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1996/12/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1996/12/01 00:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Rev Enferm. 1996 Dec;19(220):22-7.