A comparison of nursing tasks undertaken by regulated nurses and nursing support workers: a work sampling study

Aims The aim of this study was to determine which tasks unregulated nursing support staff spend their work time undertaking and to determine differences between the work undertaken by licensed/regulated nurses on units which have nursing support workers and those on units which do not. Background Acute hospital nursing teams often include nursing support staff; little is known about what kinds of tasks these unregulated support workers do and...