Audience
Nurses looking for a Hospital Management platform
About Time Study RN
Time Study RN was developed in 2002 for a Robert Wood Johnson initiative called “Transforming Care at the Bedside” or TCAB. The initiative was formed because of an observed trend that technology, new unit design, and new Nursing processes were causing the Nurse to spend less time at the bedside. At the same time, lean and Six Sigma success stories in manufacturing were catching the attention of healthcare organizations globally. Using work activities from a time study research project completed at Clarion health and published by the Institute of Medicine, RMC and the pilot TCAB teams developed the 71 work activities and 7 categories for the TCAB measurement, and RMC developed and integrated the study software and tools that formed the TCAB methodology for measuring time at the bedside.