Development and validation of a methodology to measure the time taken by hospital nurses to make vital signs observations | Zendy

Chiara Dall’Ora | Zendy; Joanna Hope | Zendy; Jackie Bridges | Zendy; Peter Griffiths | Zendy

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Development and validation of a methodology to measure the time taken by hospital nurses to make vital signs observations

Author(s) -

Chiara Dall’Ora,

Joanna Hope,

Jackie Bridges,

Peter Griffiths

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

nurse researcher

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.329

H-Index - 44

eISSN - 2047-8992

pISSN - 1351-5578

DOI - 10.7748/nr.2020.e1716

Subject(s) - vital signs , workload , reliability (semiconductor) , measure (data warehouse) , documentation , computer science , medicine , nursing , data mining , power (physics) , physics , surgery , quantum mechanics , programming language , operating system

Several time and motion studies have sought to quantify the nursing work involved in observing patients' vital signs. However, none of these studies offered a validated methodology that can be replicated. This is reflected in the high variation between these studies in the mean times for measuring and recording observations.

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