Sjuksköterskors registrering och upplevelser av vårdtyngd på en intensivvårdsavdelning
Engelsk titel: Nurses' registration and experience of workload in an intensive care unit
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Författare:
Glimelius Petersson C
;
Jakobsson L
;
Persson L
Email: r.peters@lm.lrf.se
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 26
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 02043069
Sammanfattning
One of the assumptions of content
validity when measuring nursing
workload is that the nurses feel
that the instrument reflects and
represents their work or the patients´
need for care. The aim of
this study was to compare the subjective
experience by nurses of
their workload in relation to
registered workload, both with
regard to all the patients cared for
during one shift, and with regard
to all the indicators in the instrument.
Nursing workload according
to Vårdtyngd Lund (VTL) has
been registered at the unite since
1992. Workload points (VT-p) per
nurse during the period (nine
selected days autumn 1997) were
lower than the annual average.
Work demands, meaning working
very fast, working very hard, job
requiring intense concentration,
often interrupted tasks and hectic
work together with the feeling of
haste show a significant correlation
with VT-p per nurse (p <
0.001). Work demands were experienced
as higher on weekdays
when compared with Saturdays
and Sundays and this corresponds
to increasing VT-p per nurse. A
majority of nurses considered that
the indicators in the workload
measurement reflected their experienced
workload. In the comments
the domains that lacked the
most were indirect care and uniterelated
activities.