Table 3 Summary of responses to open-ended question 'What I would do with more time?'
From: Measuring the context of care in an Australian acute care hospital: a nurse survey
| Theme | Specific areas | total |
|---|---|---|
| Fundamentals of Care | Have more time to discuss patient's condition (with them) (11) | 88 |
| Do extra things for patients (8) | ||
| Do routine things properly e.g., washing showering (54) | ||
| Contact time with family (10) | ||
| Providing psychological, emotional, spiritual care (5) | ||
| Learning and Teaching | Professional development (19) | 57 |
| Clinical presentations by experts (6) | ||
| Educating junior staff (28) | ||
| Taking better care of myself (2) | ||
| Advanced clinical skills (2) | ||
| Specific Clinical Aspects | Assessment (6) | 42 |
| Patient education (19) | ||
| Counselling (6) | ||
| Discharge planning (5) | ||
| Patient involvement (5) | ||
| Palliative care (1) | ||
| Information retrieval | More time to do more in-depth searching for information (40) | 40 |
| Staffing Issues/infrastructure | Night duty staff challenges (1) | 25 |
| Keeping equipment clean/tidy (6) | ||
| Nursing documentation (9) | ||
| Non-nursing duties (1) | ||
| Better handovers/orientation (4) | ||
| More down time/recovery time (4) | ||
| Research | Ward based research (13) | 17 |
| QI/protocol work (4) | ||
| Teamwork | More time to communicate with colleagues (6) | 6 |
| Total | 276 |