Assignment Element Difficulty as a Basis for Nursing Personnel Staffing at Naval Hospitals. Phase I. Project Report.
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between the quality of patient care and the difficulty of nursing assignments on patient units at naval hospitals. Phase I of the study has concentrated on adaptation and testing of several research tools for use in quantifying the quality of nursing care and the difficulty of nursing assignments on general medical and surgical units. These tools include a process-oriented quality questionnaire, a patient classification system, a difficulty assessment instrument to be used with the psychological scaling technique of constant-sum paired comparisons, and a work sampling methodology to identify how nursing personnel divide their time among various categories of activities. The above research tools were used during a 35-day data collection period on three patient units at a single naval hospital. Subsequent data analysis indicates that a demonstrable relationship exists between patient care quality and the average difficulty of patient care assignments and that this relationship has potential as a basis for nursing personnel staffing systems at naval hospitals. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1979
- Accession Number
- ADA078584
Entities
People
- John E. Montgomery
- Mary Kelly