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'''Nurses''' are [[health personnel]] who are "professionals qualified by education at an accredited school of nursing  and licensed by state law to practice nursing. They provide services to  patients requiring assistance in recovering or maintaining their  physical or mental health."<ref>{{MeSH}}</ref>
'''Nurses''' are [[health personnel]] who are "professionals qualified by education at an accredited school of nursing  and licensed by state law to practice nursing. They provide services to  patients requiring assistance in recovering or maintaining their  physical or mental health."<ref>{{MeSH}}</ref>


Regarding tasks of nurses, "nurses spent around 37% of their time with patients which did not change. Work patterns were increasingly fragmented with rapid changes  between tasks of short length. Interruptions were modest but their  substantial over-representation among medication tasks raises potential  safety concerns. There was no evidence of an increase in team-based,  multi-disciplinary care. Over time nurses spent significantly less time  talking with colleagues and more time alone."<ref name="pmid22111656">{{cite journal| author=Westbrook JI, Duffield C, Li L, Creswick NJ| title=How much time do nurses have for patients? A longitudinal study quantifying hospital nurses' patterns of task time distribution and interactions with health professionals. | journal=BMC Health Serv Res | year= 2011 | volume= 11 | issue= 1 | pages= 319 | pmid=22111656 | doi=10.1186/1472-6963-11-319 | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=22111656  }} </ref>
Regarding tasks of nurses from 2005 through 2008, "nurses spent around 37% of their time with patients which did not change. Work patterns were increasingly fragmented with rapid changes  between tasks of short length. Interruptions were modest but their  substantial over-representation among medication tasks raises potential  safety concerns. There was no evidence of an increase in team-based,  multi-disciplinary care. Over time nurses spent significantly less time  talking with colleagues and more time alone."<ref name="pmid22111656">{{cite journal| author=Westbrook JI, Duffield C, Li L, Creswick NJ| title=How much time do nurses have for patients? A longitudinal study quantifying hospital nurses' patterns of task time distribution and interactions with health professionals. | journal=BMC Health Serv Res | year= 2011 | volume= 11 | issue= 1 | pages= 319 | pmid=22111656 | doi=10.1186/1472-6963-11-319 | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=22111656  }} </ref>


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Nurses are health personnel who are "professionals qualified by education at an accredited school of nursing and licensed by state law to practice nursing. They provide services to patients requiring assistance in recovering or maintaining their physical or mental health."[1]

Regarding tasks of nurses from 2005 through 2008, "nurses spent around 37% of their time with patients which did not change. Work patterns were increasingly fragmented with rapid changes between tasks of short length. Interruptions were modest but their substantial over-representation among medication tasks raises potential safety concerns. There was no evidence of an increase in team-based, multi-disciplinary care. Over time nurses spent significantly less time talking with colleagues and more time alone."[2]

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