A Time-Motion Study Description of Nursing Staff in Medical Unit a Hospital in Indonesia

Abstract

Background:The quality managerial system in a hospital can be proved from efficiency, and staffs ‘productivity. In the hospital service management was included nursing care management. Objectives: This study aims to find out the description of the work performance using time-motion study of nurses in the medical hospital room. Design: This study was quantitative by using descriptive-analytic method. A number of 31 nurses was observed when applied nursing care to the 38 patients. Five investigators stayed every day for 30 days to observe each nursing care that applied by the nurses. Time calculation was using a stopwatch and recorded on paper containing a list of nursing actions. Results: Most of the patients treated in the internal medicine room were dependent on intermediate care (86.6%). There were 30 types of direct nursing care actions that was carried out by the nurses. One of the nursing care actions is preparing diagnostic examinations that need the most average time was 21 minutes; on the other hand, the mean of shortest time is preparing oral medicine that need 1.5 minutes. Conclusion: Theaveragetimeinoneworkingdayinthemedicalroomspend around 426.70 minutes or the equivalent of 7.11 hours.