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How long do nurses take to measure patients’ vital signs, and does it matter?

How long do nurses take to measure patients’ vital signs, and does it matter?
How long do nurses take to measure patients’ vital signs, and does it matter?
Patients in hospital may be at risk of unexpected deterioration. Monitoring patients’ vital signs, for example blood pressure and heart rate, ensures that any deterioration can be spotted early. This means that monitoring patients’ vital signs is an important part of safe patient care, and, if carried out effectively, has the potential to save many patients’ lives. However, previous studies have been unable to specify the workload this monitoring activity generates for nursing staff. This makes it difficult to plan how many staff are needed to monitor patients.

Researchers at the University Of Southampton, University of Portsmouth and University of Oxford have teamed up to measure and estimate the time and workload associated with measuring patients’ vital signs, and this evidence brief reports what they found.
Nurse, Vital signs, Workload, Time-and-motion
Dall'ora, Chiara
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Saville, Christina
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Dall'ora, Chiara
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Saville, Christina
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Dall'ora, Chiara , Saville, Christina (ed.) (2021) How long do nurses take to measure patients’ vital signs, and does it matter? Evidence Brief, [20].

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Abstract

Patients in hospital may be at risk of unexpected deterioration. Monitoring patients’ vital signs, for example blood pressure and heart rate, ensures that any deterioration can be spotted early. This means that monitoring patients’ vital signs is an important part of safe patient care, and, if carried out effectively, has the potential to save many patients’ lives. However, previous studies have been unable to specify the workload this monitoring activity generates for nursing staff. This makes it difficult to plan how many staff are needed to monitor patients.

Researchers at the University Of Southampton, University of Portsmouth and University of Oxford have teamed up to measure and estimate the time and workload associated with measuring patients’ vital signs, and this evidence brief reports what they found.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 1 August 2021
Published date: 1 August 2021
Keywords: Nurse, Vital signs, Workload, Time-and-motion

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Local EPrints ID: 450502
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/450502
PURE UUID: a8c13198-b9ea-4405-9206-5fc0ea937527
ORCID for Chiara Dall'ora: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6858-3535
ORCID for Christina Saville: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7718-5689

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Date deposited: 30 Jul 2021 16:31
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 04:09

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