Activity Analysis of Nurses working in a Teaching Hospital of Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

Felomina Baroi, M Shahjahan, Papia Sultana, Mahmud Hossain Faruquee, Nawzia Yasmin
 

 

Full Length Research Paper I Published May, 2017

 

Journal of Medical and Biological Science Research Vol. 3 (2), pp. 14-18

 

ABSTRACT

Nurses perform patient-related care activities (direct and indirect), and other nursing activities (unit-related and personal), which form part of the nursing work load in medical ward. A work sampling study was conducted in 2015 to analyze the activities performed by nurses in medical wards during their tenure of duty schedule in a selected teaching hospital of Dhaka city. A work sampling method was used and nursing activity was recorded at 5 min intervals from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm spread over 4 month of data collection, with one session from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm and the second from 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm. A total of 12913 nursing activities were observed and recorded over 1076 h and categorized as follows: 7476 (58%) direct patient care, 2055 (16%) indirect patient care, 2373 (18%) unit-related and 1009 (8%) personal time. The percentage of indirect patient care activities mainly concentrated in morning shifts. It was concluded that more than half of the nursing activities were direct patient care activities.

Key words: Activity Analysis and Nurse, Hospital and Bangladesh.

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