![]() ![]() We consider this a form of workload management. The RAFAELA™ patient classification system is an instrument to assess optimum levels of nursing intensity. Another drawback of the B-NMDS is the extensive amount of registration required by the hospitals. However, Sermeus stated in a 2008 study that the B-NMDS nursing intensity did not necessarily give an indication of required nursing time. They recommended that instead of working with NHPPD, a NHPPD corrected for nursing intensity is a better measure. ![]() Van den Heede showed that 70% of variation in nursing staff per unit was predicted by the B-NMDS item hospital type with the covariates nursing intensity and service type. In Belgium, hospitals are required to register the Belgium Nursing Minimum Data Set (B-NMDS) in order to benchmark hospitals on several dimensions, among which workload. Twigg argues that relying on expert opinion in setting standards for workload, in their study a standard NHPPD per ward, is not optimal and recommends using a standardized patient acuity measurement. There is evidence that these nurse-patient ratios or nursing hours per patient day (NHPPD) do not accurately predict workload of nurses, since these do not take into account the different needs between patients nor the differences in experience and education level of nursing staff. Many studies have identified factors that predict workload of nurses. Workload is related to intention to leave and besides this, training of new staff is also costly. Also, in the near future healthcare labor shortages are expected to occur, so retaining nursing staff will be a challenge. Bakker found a relation between job demands such as workload and performance, and Toh’s study showed a positive bi-directional relation between the nursing shortage and oncology nurses' job dissatisfaction, stress and burnout. There is a direct relation between nurses’ workload and patient outcome and workload is also a predictor for burnout. The amount of work that nurses do, their workload, needs to be well balanced, in order to prevent extra costs for overstaffing a ward but also to prevent deteriorating patient outcomes and increased stress or burnout in nurses by understaffing wards. To ensure this, there needs to be a good fit between patient needs and nursing staff on hospital wards. Hospitals intend to deliver good quality of care and also work efficiently. Nationaal Ziekenhuis Instituut (Dutch Hospital Institute DPC,īalancing the amount of nursing staff in relation to the amount of patients is important for hospitals to remain efficient. This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files.įunding: The study was funded by the University Medical Center Utrecht. Received: FebruAccepted: JanuPublished: April 24, 2018Ĭopyright: © 2018 van den Oetelaar et al. PLoS ONE 13(4):Įditor: Peter van Bogaert, University Antwerp, BELGIUM Citation: van den Oetelaar WFJM, van Stel HF, van Rhenen W, Stellato RK, Grolman W (2018) Mapping nurses’ activities in surgical hospital wards: A time study.
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