Toward ensuring care quality and safety across settings: examining time pressure in a nursing home with observational time motion study metrics based on the Omaha system.
Meaningful data to determine safe and efficient nursing workload are needed. Reasoning a nurse can accomplish a finite number of interventions and location changes per hour, examination of time pressure using time motion study (TMS) methods will provide a comparable indication of safe and efficient workload for an individual nurse.
Author(s): Kang, Yu Jin, Mueller, Christine A, Gaugler, Joseph E, Mathiason Moore, Michelle A, Monsen, Karen A
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocad113