Table 6.
Purpose | Frequency, n (%) |
Activity and health | 88 (30.1) |
Care coordination and communication | 53 (18.2) |
Falls | 36 (12.3) |
Nursing assessment or care needs assessment | 21 (7.2) |
Alarms | 14 (4.8) |
Nurse rostering or scheduling | 12 (4.1) |
Pressure ulcers | 11 (3.8) |
Social integration and participation | 10 (3.4) |
Parenteral or enteral nutrition and fluid intake | 7 (2.4) |
Quality of life and well-being of caregivers | 6 (2.1) |
Mobility, other | 5 (1.7) |
Speech | 5 (1.7) |
Distribution of medication | 3 (1) |
Wound management (excluding pressure ulcers) | 3 (1) |
Bladder control | 2 (0.7) |
Infection control | 2 (0.7) |
Respiratory care or weaning | 2 (0.7) |
Clinical education | 1 (0.3) |
COPDa care | 1 (0.3) |
Digestion management | 1 (0.3) |
Pain assessment or management | 1 (0.3) |
N/Ab | 8 (2.7) |
aCOPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
bN/A: not applicable.