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In this study, the nurse’s workload in a medical intensive care unit (ICU) was analyzed through the measurement of travel distances and compared between before the pandemic in Feb 2020 and during the pandemic in Feb 2021. The total moving distance of each ICU nurse in four main locations (i.e., a nurse station, central desk, patient room, and hallway) was collected by using the near-field electromagnetic ranging system, which is the advanced real-time location system. We hypothesized that the COVID-19 pandemic significantly influences the nurse’s travel distance. The results showed no significant difference in travel distance at the central desk between the Feb and July data. However, the ICU nurse’s travel distance in the patient room was significantly increased while the travel distances in the hallway and nurse station were decreased. The findings from this study will help us to understand how the pandemic affects the nurses’ workload in a medical intensive care unit.
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Dimler, M., Spicer, R., Kim, J.H. (2022). The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic in a Medical ICU: Nurses’ Travel Distance. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S. (eds) HCI International 2022 Posters. HCII 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1580. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06417-3_6
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