News: Nurses spending more time on indirect patient care
February 2, 2012
CDI Strategies - Volume 6, Issue 3
Three hours a day. That’s how much time, out of a 12-hour shift, nurses say they spend on indirect patient care tasks such as documenting orders and coordinating care with other departments, according to a new study from Jackson Healthcare and Care Logistics. The survey collected information from more than 400 nursing professionals whose most time consuming non-clinical care tasks included:
- Documenting information in multiple locations
- Completing logs, checklists and collecting data
- Documenting for regulatory purposes
- Traveling to equipment, supply and dirty utility rooms
- Entering and reviewing orders
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