Nurses’ Burden of Elimination Care: Sequential Explanatory Mixed-Methods Design

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Table 1 Survey and Focus Group Participants’ Characteristics (n = 59)

Characteristics	n (%)
Gender
Man	2 (3)
Woman	57 (97)
Age (years)
20–29	29 (49)
30–39	22 (37)
40–49	7 (12)
50–59	1 (2)
Career (years)
1–2	9 (14)
3–5	31 (53)
6–9	9 (16)
≥10	10 (17)
Department
Intensive care unit	13 (22)
General ward	30 (51)
Integrated nursing care ward	16 (27)

Figure 1 Burden of elimination care. The subparts (a–e) in the figure are indicators of quantifying the nurses’ EC burden. (* p<0.05).

Abbreviations: GW, General ward; ICU, Intensive care unit; INCW, Integrated nursing care ward; EC, Elimination care.

Table 2 Themes and Categories of Results from Qualitative Analysis

Themes	Categories	Frequency of Extracts
Physical/psychological burden	Burden of musculoskeletal pain due to patients’ weight	36
	Burden due to odor or form of excrement	11
Frequent care needs	Burden due to incontinence	10
	Burden due to urinary retention	6
Delay of other jobs	Delay of other jobs or tasks due to bed contamination	6
	Delay of other jobs or tasks due to irregular or unexpected elimination care	17
Complications	Skin problems from inadequate elimination care	29
	Disconnection of medical devices during elimination care	5