Nursing Workload: Direct and Indirect Care Practices: Descriptive, Cross-Sectional Research

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Objective: Workload is a multidimensional and complex concept that determines the nurse's performance and quality of care. In this study; it was aimed to determine how the workload of nurses working in internal and surgical clinics of A1 training and research hospitals is distributed between direct care and indirect care practices, how much time is allocated to which practices and to form a basis for the relevant clinical nurse employment according to the obtained data. Material and Methods: The data form devised for the collection of the study data, prepared within the framework of the job descriptions in Annex 3 of the Nursing Regulation was a result of brainstormings from the daily patient experiences of health care services unit supervisors, special branch nurses, and responsible nurses of the relevant clinics in line with the literature as ten sub-titles with a total of 51 questions. Evaluation was made on 54 forms, and the forms werw filled by the nurses who performed the application. Results: The time spent on one-to-one patient care practices such as interventional applications, external practices, diagnosis & treatment, educational activities, emergencies and drug administration was 3,853 minutes. The time spent on consultation, registration, pharmacy transactions, and non-clinical transactions was 1,239 minutes. Conclusion: Of the recorded 33,480 minutes of applications, 17,338 (51.7%) minutes were spent on patient care practices, and 5,575 (16.6%) minutes were spent on indirect care practices.