The role of physical design and informal communication

Average time (h:mm:ss)
3:50:24
3:21:36
2:52:48
2:24:00
1:55:12
1:26:24
0:57:36
0:28:48
0:00:00
Work
Alone
Patient Visitor Nurses Doctor AH Orientor GN
Person
Figure 25 Average time during an 8-hour shift the GN spent with each person
When the average time data was analyzed by week, the time per interaction
with patients decreased by 50% over the course of orientation from 2:12 in Week 2 to
1:04 in week 9 (Figure 26). This may be attributable to the GN’s patient assignment
which increased over time. In week 2, the GN was responsible for just three patients,
and by week 9 she was responsible for 6 patients. It is possible that the more patients
she was responsible for, the less time she was able to spend per interaction with each
patient, hence the shorter average interaction by week 9. A second pattern of interest
is that the average times with patients and nurses seem to correlate over the 8 week
period. When the average time spent with patients increased or decreased, the average
time spent with nurses followed the same pattern in every week except week 7. No
other trends were found in the data.
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