The Time, Places, and Activities of Nurses in a Psychiatric Inpatient Context - A Time and Motion Study with a
Andreas Glantz1,2, Charlotta Sunnqvist2,3, Karin Örmon2,4
1Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Abstract:
Nurses in psychiatric inpatient care spend less time than desired with patients and investigation of the nature of nursing in this setting is needed. This study explores how nursing activities in psychiatric inpatient wards is distributed over time, and with a time-geographic perspective show how this relates to places. Observations were used to register place, activity, and time. A constructed time-geographic chart mapped the nurses' path which showed that nurses spent little time in places where patients are. There might be constraints that affect nursing. Nurses need to evaluate where time is spent and interventions that facilitate relationships are needed.
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