Table 3.
Number, proportion and average task times in year 1 and year 3 by task type
| Task | Period | Number of tasks | Total time spent on task (hrs) |
Mean task length (seconds) |
Number of tasks per hour |
Percentage of total time | 95% Confidence intervals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct care | Year 1 | 1009 | 22.4 | 80 | 9.2 | 20.4 | 18.3% | 22.4% |
| Year 3 | 958 | 20.2 | 76 | 11.8 | 24.8 | 22.7% | 26.9% | |
| Indirect care | Year 1 | 1098 | 14.2 | 47 | 10.0 | 13.0 | 11.6% | 14.3% |
| Year 3 | 1059 | 13.1 | 45 | 13.0 | 16.1 | 14.3% | 18.0% | |
| Medication tasks | Year 1 | 1808 | 20.9 | 42* | 16.5 | 19.0 | 18.1% | 19.9% |
| Year 3 | 1296 | 17.0 | 47* | 15.9 | 20.9 | 18.7% | 23.0% | |
| Documentation | Year 1 | 416 | 10.7 | 92* | 3.8 | 9.7 | 7.7% | 11.7% |
| Year 3 | 342 | 6.0 | 63* | 4.2 | 7.3 | 6.4% | 8.2% | |
| Professional | Year 1 | 1612 | 26.3 | 59* | 14.7 | 24.0 | 20.7% | 27.2% |
| communication | Year 3 | 1688 | 15.6 | 33* | 20.7 | 19.2 | 17.1% | 21.3% |
| Ward activities | Year 1 | 72 | 2.9 | 144* | 0.7 | 2.6 | 1.7% | 3.6% |
| Year 3 | 143 | 3.2 | 80* | 1.8 | 3.9 | 2.6% | 5.2% | |
| In transit | Year 1 | 1251 | 8.1 | 23 | 11.4 | 7.4 | 6.7% | 8.0% |
| Year 3 | 584 | 3.8 | 23 | 7.2 | 4.6 | 2.9% | 6.4% | |
| Supervision | Year 1 | 116 | 2.6 | 80 | 1.1 | 2.3 | 1.7% | 3.0% |
| Year 3 | 94 | 2.6 | 101 | 1.2 | 3.2 | 2.5% | 4.0% | |
| Social | Year 1 | 90 | 13.3 | 531 | 0.8 | 12.1 | 8.5% | 15.7% |
| Year 3 | 85 | 8.5 | 360 | 1.0 | 10.4 | 7.0% | 13.9% | |
| Other | Year 1 | 78 | 0.7 | 30 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.5% | 0.8% |
| Year 3 | 31 | 0.7 | 84 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0% | 2.0% | |
*Indicates significant change in year 1 and year 3 average task length times (P < 0.05)