Table 2.
Time spent by nurses with other health professionals and patients
| With whom | Period | Number of tasks | Mean task length (seconds) |
Percentage* (%) |
95% Confidence intervals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alone | Year 1 | 2630 | 41.37# | 27.52 | 24.45 | 30.59 |
| Year 3 | 2288 | 50.48# | 39.38 | 34.90 | 43.87 | |
| Patient | Year1 | 2394 | 61.01 | 36.95 | 34.55 | 39.34 |
| Year 3 | 1666 | 62.77 | 35.66 | 33.29 | 38.03 | |
| Relative | Year 1 | 401 | 59.69 | 6.05 | 5.27 | 6.84 |
| Year 3 | 282 | 57.45 | 5.52 | 4.71 | 6.34 | |
| Nurse | Year 1 | 2665 | 80.64# | 54.36 | 49.05 | 59.67 |
| Year 3 | 2229 | 53.87# | 40.95 | 36.93 | 44.97 | |
| Doctor | Year 1 | 327 | 44.19 | 3.66 | 3.26 | 4.05 |
| Year 3 | 240 | 43.37 | 3.55 | 2.96 | 4.14 | |
| Allied Health | Year1 | 83 | 55.67 | 1.17 | 0.88 | 1.46 |
| Year 3 | 67 | 34.48 | 0.79 | 0.60 | 0.98 | |
| Pharmacy | Year 1 | 31 | 46.23 | 0.36 | 0.20 | 0.52 |
| Year 3 | 35 | 40.49 | 0.48 | 0.37 | 0.60 | |
| Health professional^ | Year 1 | 2976 | 76.57# | 57.64 | 52.30 | 62.98 |
| Year 3 | 2518 | 52.34# | 44.94 | 40.88 | 49.00 | |
| Other | Year1 | 416 | 51.87 | 5.46 | 4.82 | 6.10 |
| Year 3 | 290 | 38.52 | 3.81 | 3.18 | 4.44 | |
*Percentage of observed task time. The categories of with who are not mutually exclusive (with the exception of 'alone'). ^Health professional includes nurses, doctors, allied health professional including pharmacists. # indicates a statistically significant change in year 1 and year 3 average task lengths(P < 0.05).