J Korean Acad Nurs.  2003 Dec;33(7):1018-1027.

A Workload Analysis of a Visiting Nursing Service based on a Health Center in Seoul

Affiliations
  • 1College of Nursing, Korea University, Korea. hosihn@korea.ac.kr
  • 2Department of Nursing, Inha University, Korea.

Abstract

PURPOSE
This study focused on analysing the workload of visiting nurses based on a health center. METHOD: A Prospective descriptive analysis of self-records for workload data from 115 visiting nurses during 4 weeks was done. In addition, a cross-sectional analysis of linked data to grasp the priority of visiting nursing services from 155 visiting nurses at the 25 health centers in Seoul. RESULT: Time allocation that was performed on all nursing workload of visiting nurses was identified as follows: First, the inside workload of the health center took up 60% of all visiting nurse activities. Second, providing direct nursing care(caseload) took up 25%. Third, outside nursing activities excluding the caseload provided in the health center took up 15% of all working time. Fourth, the core works to have a high priority among visiting nursing activities were family health assessment, planning and evaluation of a visiting nursing program, personal health assessment, and so forth. CONCLUSION: The workload of a visiting nurse suggests that the caseload of visiting nurses in a health center needs to be increased. Also, our results will contribute to baseline data used to establish a proper visiting nurses infrastructure based on the demand of visiting nursing services.

Keyword

Visiting Nurse; Workload

MeSH Terms

Cross-Sectional Studies
Family Health
Hand Strength
Humans
Methods
Nurses, Community Health
Nursing Services*
Nursing*
Prospective Studies
Seoul*
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