How much time do nurses have for patients? A longitudinal study quantifying hospital nurses' patterns of task time distribution and interactions with health professionals

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Westbrook, Johanna I ^a   Duffield, Christine ^b   Li, Ling ^a   Creswick, Nerida J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; HUMAN; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING CARE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING PRACTICE; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; WORKLOAD;

AUSTRALIA; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; NURSE'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING CARE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 82055181582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-319     Document Type: Article

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