Sensor-based measurement of critical care nursing workload: Unobtrusive measures of nursing activity complement traditional task and patient level indicators of workload to predict perceived exertion
Sensor-based measurement of critical care nursing workload: Unobtrusive measures of nursing activity complement traditional task and patient level indicators of workload to predict perceived exertion
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DOI:
10.1371/journal.pone.0204819
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发表时间:
2018-10-12
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3.7
通讯作者:
Pronovost, Peter J.
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作者:
Rosen, Michael A.;Dietz, Aaron S.;Pronovost, Peter J.
ObjectiveTo establish the validity of sensor-based measures of work processes for predicting perceived mental and physical exertion of critical care nurses.Materials and methodsRepeated measures mixed-methods study in a surgical intensive care unit. Wearable and environmental sensors captured work process data. Nurses rated their mental (ME) and physical exertion (PE) for each four-hour block, and recorded patient and staffing-level workload factors. Shift was the grouping variable in multilevel modeling where sensor-based measures were used to predict nursing perceptions of exertion.ResultsThere were 356 work hours from 89 four-hour shift segments across 35 bedside nursing shifts. In final models, sensor-based data accounted for 73% of between-shift, and 5% of within-shift variance in ME; and 55% of between-shift, and 55% of within-shift variance in PE. Significant predictors of ME were patient room noise (beta = 0.30, p < .01), the interaction between time spent and activity levels outside main work areas (beta = 2.24, p < .01), and the interaction between the number of patients on an insulin drip and the burstiness of speaking (beta = 0.19, p