Table 4 Duration of each nursing activity (Daily).
From: Exploring nurses' multitasking in clinical settings using a multimethod study
Categories | Minutes (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Total (%) | Single (%) | Multitasking (%) | |
Scheduled medication | 347.4 (23.7) | 144.6 (19.4) | 202.8 (28.2) |
Document nursing care | 309.0 (21.1) | 184.8 (24.8) | 124.2 (17.3) |
Monitoring and measurement | 183.6 (12.5) | 48.0 (6.4) | 135.0 (18.8) |
Handover | 169.8 (11.6) | 158.4 (21.3) | 11.4 (1.6) |
Housekeeping | 108.0 (7.4) | 86.4 (11.6) | 21.6 (3.0) |
Coordinate patient care | 100.8 (6.9) | 23.4 (3.1) | 77.4 (10.8) |
Comfort/talk with the patient | 69.6 (4.8) | 15.6 (2.1) | 54.0 (7.5) |
Treatments and procedure | 61.2 (4.2) | 28.8 (3.9) | 32.4 (4.5) |
Routine phlebotomy | 33.6 (2.3) | 22.2 (3.0) | 11.4 (1.6) |
Prepare patients and families for discharge | 31.2 (2.1) | 21.0 (2.8) | 10.2 (1.4) |
Other (organizing and storing patients’ personal belongings, searching for patients, etc.) | 14.4 (1.0) | 9.6 (1.3) | 4.8 (0.7) |
Pain management | 13.8 (0.9) | 0 (0.0) | 13.2 (1.8) |
Teach/counsel patients and family | 10.2 (0.7) | 0.6 (0.1) | 9.0 (1.3) |
Looking for supplies or equipment | 4.8 (0.3) | 0.6 (0.1) | 4.2 (0.6) |
Skincare | 4.8 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) | 4.8 (0.7) |
Transporting of patients | 0.6 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0.6 (0.1) |
Prepare patients and families for admission or transmission | 0.6 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0.6 (0.1) |
Develop or update care plans | 0.6 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0.6 (0.1) |
Arranging discharge referrals and transportation | 0.6 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0.6 (0.1) |
Delivering and retrieving food trays | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 1,464.0 (100) | 745.2 (100) | 718.8 (100) |
