Table 2.

Care workers’ ordinary work tasks in Canada and Sweden.

	All Care workers		Canada		Sweden
% reporting doing the following ordinary work tasks at least monthly	Canada (n=557)	Sweden (n= 292)	Assistant nurses (n=142)	Care aides (n=415)	Assistant nurses (n=203)	Care aides (n=89)
Clean resident’s room/apartment	53.4	82.2	39.5	58.0	80.5	86.4
Serve food	86.4	86.6	73.0	90.6	86.4	87.2
Help with personal hygiene	95.3	100.0	81.4	99.8	100.0	100.0
Sit down for a coffee and a chat with a resident	46.6	64.4	46.5	46.7	65.3	62.4
Follow a resident on an errand outside facility	7.3	36.3	2.4	8.9	36.1	36.8
Administrative tasks	47.7	82.5	86.2	34.5	90.4	63.4
Contact with other health care providers	18.5	41.5	60.2	4.3	42.1	40.2
Hand out pills from a dispenser	23.3	91.3	86.5	3.1	91.0	92.0
Give an injection	19.2	38.8	74.2	1.3	43.6	27.6
% reporting that 5> tasks listed above are part of their ordinary work	26.8	81.7	67.9	13.5	84.2	76.1

Note: Figures marked in italics indicate a statistically significant difference (p<0.05).