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Care complexity is poorly defined and often confused with workload. Nurses perceive it as encompassing patient, nurse, and organizational factors, suggesting evaluation over measurement.

Keywords:
Complexity of carehospital organizationintensitynursing

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  • Nursing Science
  • Phenomenological Research

Background:

  • Care complexity is a widely used but poorly defined concept in healthcare.
  • It is often conflated with similar terms like care intensity and workload.
  • Understanding nurses' perceptions is crucial for accurate definition and application.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore nurses' lived experiences of care complexity in various healthcare settings.
  • To differentiate care complexity from workload and care intensity from a nursing perspective.
  • To identify the core components of care complexity as perceived by frontline nurses.

Main Methods:

  • Unstructured interviews with 15 nurses from clinical and organizational areas.
  • Propriशनल sampling methodology for participant selection.
  • Descriptive phenomenological analysis using Colaizzi's method.

Main Results:

  • Nurses often equate care complexity with workload.
  • Three key themes emerged: patient, nurse, and organizational factors.
  • Care complexity involves both quantitative and qualitative dimensions.

Conclusions:

  • Care complexity encompasses more than just organizational aspects; it includes patient and nurse-specific factors.
  • The term 'evaluation' of care complexity is more appropriate than 'measurement' due to its qualitative nature.
  • This distinction is vital for defining necessary nursing skills and professional practice.