Table 4.
Additional activities and individual allowance standards for health workers
| Workload components | Nurses/midwives | CHO/CHEW | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of staff performing the task | Actual working time | Number of staff performing the task | Actual working time | |
| Supervision of students | 10 | 32 h/month | 10 | 8 h/month |
| General administration | 1 | 6 h /month | 1 | 4 h/month |
| Monthly report writing | 1 | 1 h/month | 1 | 1 h/month |
| Monitoring and evaluations/documentations/collation of patient data | 1 | 3 h/month | 1 | 3 h/month |
| Review meetings (LGA coordination meeting) | 1 | 3 h/month | 1 | 3 h/month |
| Mentoring of subordinates | 1 | 4 h/ month | 1 | 4 h/month |
| LGA technical meetings | 1 | 2 h/month | 1 | 2 h/month |
| PHC management committee meeting/facility management meeting | 1 | 2 h/month | 1 | 2 h/month |
| Advocacy | 1 | 6 h/year | 1 | 10 h/year |
| Bed making | 2 | 24 min/day | 2 | 24 min/day |
| Sterilization of equipment’s | 1 | 30 min/day | 1 | 30 min/day |
CHO Community Health Officer, CHEW Community Health Extension Worker