An evaluation of the time for nursing activity in a hospital using a full Electronic Medical Record System (EMR).
This study was designed to analyze the time for direct and indirect nursing activity to evaluate the workload of nurses using a full Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system on practice. The result is that the mean time for nursing activity per nurse was 499.56 minutes, the mean time for direct nursing activity per nurse was 251.1 minutes (50.3%), and the mean time for indirect nursing activity per nurse was 248.42 minutes(49.7%). The time for direct nursing activity was more than the time for indirect nursing activity. There was a significant difference in the time for nursing activity according to workplace (p < 0.00*), but no difference according to nursing career. Regarding 3 duty-shifts, the time for direct nursing activity was highest in the evening shift and the time for indirect nursing activity was highest in the night shift.
Chung
Eun-Ja
EJ
Committee of Nursing Information System, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul, Korea. ejung@snubh.org
Kim
Hyun-Ja
HJ
Park
Kwang-Hee
KH
Song
Young-Ae
YA
Lee
Boek-Nam
BN
Lee
Mi-Jeong
MJ
Lee
Jeong-Hee
JH
Lee
Hye-A
HA
Lim
Yeon-Sook
YS
Choi
Eun-Young
EY
Hwang
Hye-Young
HY
Lee
Hyun-Sook
HS
D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009732:Nursing Care; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D013997:Time Factors; D016526:Workload