Table 5 Nursing time spent on medication‐related tasks each week.

	Pre‐intervention	Post‐intervention	Statistical analysis
Time available each week for medication‐related activities	336 h	336 h	—
Drug rounds per week	56	56	—
Mean time spent on each drug round (range)	50 min (15–105 min)	40 min* (16–78 min)	p  =  0.006; unpaired t test
Total time spent on drug rounds each week	46 h 54 min	38 h 16 min	—
Total time observed outside of drug rounds	16 h 43 min	16 h 11 min	—
Activity samples recorded outside of drug rounds	521	537
Medication‐related activity samples outside of drug rounds (%)	110 (21.1)	154 (28.7)	p  =  0.006; χ2 test

*Post‐intervention drug rounds comprised a mean (range) preparation time of 15 (6–35) min and a mean (range) administration time of 25 (8–53) min.