Use of Nursing Interventions as an Indicator to Assess the Workload of Nurses in a Tertiary Care Surgical Ward Setting in Sri Lanka

S N Silva; K M Mulleriyawa; S R Tissera; P L Jayawardene; K A P T Karunarathne

doi:10.3233/SHTI190545

Use of Nursing Interventions as an Indicator to Assess the Workload of Nurses in a Tertiary Care Surgical Ward Setting in Sri Lanka

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019 Aug 21:264:1582-1583. doi: 10.3233/SHTI190545.

Authors

S N Silva¹, K M Mulleriyawa², S R Tissera³, P L Jayawardene⁴, K A P T Karunarathne⁴

Affiliations

¹ Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
² General Surgery Section, National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
³ Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group, IMIA NI SIG Country office, Sri Lanka.
⁴ School of Nursing, International Institute of Health Sciences, Sri Lanka.

PMID: 31438242
DOI: 10.3233/SHTI190545

Abstract

This research looked into the possibility of using the number of Nursing Interventions as a measure of Nurses workload in a Surgical ward setting. The quantification of the number of interventions was done using the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC). This strategy could generate the average number of interventions required per patient and per shift as well as could assess the variation of the number of interventions under different factors.

Keywords: NIC Terminology; Nursing Informatics; Workload.

MeSH terms

Humans
Sri Lanka
Standardized Nursing Terminology
Tertiary Healthcare
Vocabulary, Controlled
Workload*