A comparison of nursing tasks undertaken by regulated nurses and nursing support workers: a work sampling study

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1421-1432

  Roche, Michael A ^a,b   Friedman, Sarah ^b   Duffield, Christine ^b,c   Twigg, Diane E ^c,d   Cook, Rebecca ^b  

^a Building 52   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

nurses; nursing care; nursing support workers; work sampling; workforce

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYGIENE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MODEL; NURSING CARE; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT CARE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LICENSING; NURSING ASSISTANT; NURSING PROCESS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; LICENSURE; NURSES' AIDES; NURSING PROCESS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL;

EID: 85007106891     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jan.13224     Document Type: Article

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