Table 5.

Exemplar quotes from staff on the theme of no time to assist with intradialytic exercise

No Time to Assist with IDE	Quotes
IDE as a low priority	“I do know before the actual program started, I believe there was talk of the nurses taking on the role, and I don’t know if that was true…a lot of the nurses were not impressed, and they discussed that, that there’s just not time for that.” Q35
High demands on the unit	“[Do the exercise] before they start dialysis, because it really is, like, here sometimes we have people come late or whatever, we’re busy, because something is seriously wrong with one of the patients, you just don’t have time; actually, you just don’t have time to do it. There’s already stuff that we’re supposed to do that we don’t have time to do.” Q36
	“No, because even though if we are so-called satellite unit, people sometimes they feel sick and then they couldn’t do it and then we are busy, then we couldn’t help out with having the exercise done, and then we just have to leave it for [the kinesiologist] to come. If they don’t come that day, they just have to skip the exercise. Yeah, ‘cause, still, that is not the priority, is to help our patient’s safety, right? If they don’t feel good and some other emergency—that we have to deal with an emergency instead of helping them out with the exercise.” Q37

IDE, intradialytic exercise; Q, quote.