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5.3.4 Length of Time Assigned to the Unit
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The collation of staff demographics also included the length of time staff had
been assigned to the unit (Charts 5.5 and 5.6).
5.3.4.1 Healthcare Assistants’ Length of Time Assigned to the Unit
The majority of HCA staff were also the longest working on the research unit
with four HCAs employed there for 6-8 years and four HCAs working there for
9-12 years. Two HCAs had worked on the research unit for 3-5 years. One HCA
had recently joined the team (Figure 5.1).
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Figure 5.1: Length of time HCAs assigned to the research unit
5.3.4.2 Nursing Staff Length of Time Assigned to the Unit
Similar to the HCAs, four nurses had also worked on the research unit for 9-12
years (including the clinical nurse manager 2). Five nurses had worked there for
6-8 years and four for 3-5 years. Three nurses had worked for 1-2 years on the
research unit (including the clinical nurse manager 1) and there were a number of
new nursing staff to the research unit (four nurses had worked there for less than
a year)(Figure 5.2).
Number of HCA Staff and Length of Time Assigned
to the Research Unit