A Comparison of Time-and-Motion and Self-Reporting Methods of Work Measurement
JONA The Journal of Nursing AdministrationPublished 1 March 2000
Thomas A. Burke, Jerry McKee, Helen C. Wilson, Rafe Donahue, Alice S. Batenhorst, Dev S. Pathak
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Nurse executives should consider continuous self-reporting as a low-cost means of quantifying allocation of time among nursing personnel because of perceptual differences between participants of what constitutes an activity.
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Nurse executives should consider continuous self-reporting as a low-cost means of quantifying allocation of time among nursing personnel. Self-reporting, however, is not recommended for estimating the total number of activities or the mean time per activity because of perceptual differences between participants of what constitutes an activity.
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