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Nurse clinical workload
| Definition | The number of patients seen per nurse per clinical work day.
All nurses doing clinical work, whether professional, enrolled, or assistants, must be included in the clinical work days count.
Numerator: PHC total headcount
Denominator: Nurse clinical working days
USE: Nurse workload is relevant for analysing utilisation patterns, efficiency, needs for more/less staff, more training, etc.
COMMENTS: Work days used for training, meetings and other non-clinical activities are NOT included in the denominator.
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| Reference | District Health Information System Database. National Department of Health. |
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Indicator Type: -> Health Services -> Health Personnel -> Workload [Related Resources]
| EC | FS | GP | KZN | LP | MP | NC | NW | WC | ZA |
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| Nurse clinical workload [Definition] |
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| 2000 | 24.3 | 23.2 | - | - | - | - | - | 22.1 | - | [1] 23.5 |
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| 2001 | 25.5 | 22.6 | - | - | - | - | - | 21.9 | - | [2] 23.7 |
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| 2002 | 25.4 | 24.3 | - | - | - | - | - | 26.6 | - | [3] 25.5 |
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| 2003 | 26.7 | 26.6 | - | - | - | - | - | 26.0 | - | [4] 26.5 |
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| 2004 | 26.9 | 27.2 | 29.6 | 33.8 | 40.0 | - | 47.3 | 30.8 | - | [5] 29.4 |
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| 2005 DHIS | 27.8 | 29.2 | 21.7 | 32.1 | 17.7 | 29.7 | 50.3 | 46.3 | - | [6] 26.4 |
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| 2006 DHIS | 28.6 | 36.3 | 28.3 | 24.9 | 18.8 | 24.7 | 29.7 | 30.5 | 62.1 | [7] 27.9 |
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| EC: Eastern Cape FS: Free State GP: Gauteng KZN: KwaZulu-Natal LP: Limpopo MP: Mpumalanga NC: Northern Cape NW: North West WC: Western Cape ZA: South Africa |
Notes and References
- DHIS: District Health Information System Database. National Department of Health.
Local copy: -
Data extracted January 2003.
- DHIS: District Health Information System Database. National Department of Health.
Local copy: -
Data extracted June 2004.
- DHIS: District Health Information System Database. National Department of Health.
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Data extracted June 2004.
- DHIS: District Health Information System Database. National Department of Health.
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Data extracted June 2004.
- DHIS: District Health Information System Database. National Department of Health.
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Data extracted May 2005.
- DHIS: District Health Information System Database. National Department of Health.
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Data extracted June 2006
- DHIS: District Health Information System Database. National Department of Health.
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Data extracted July 2007.
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Health Statistics