Data collected | Count | Comments |
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Qualitative | Â | Â |
Interviews with nurses | 36 Mean, 41 minutes | Explored life history, working roles, understanding of teamwork, experiences of a GP nurse, interactions with others, notions of quality practice |
Interviews with doctors | 24 Mean, 27 minutes | Explored history of practice and working life within it, roles of nurses within the practice, views of potential nurse roles |
Interviews with practice managers | 22 Mean, 26.5 minutes | Explored history of practice and working life within it, roles of nurses within the practice, views of potential nurse roles |
Observation of nurse activity | 34 nurses; 51 hours of observation | 2 separate hour-long structured observation of a nurse’s activities |
Photographs of nurse-identified important working sites | 35 nurses; 205 photographs | Photographs taken of important working sites identified by nurses within the Practice |
Maps of practice layout | 7 hand-drawn & 18 printed floor plans | These plans located the nurse’s station and other key sites identified by nurses or observed by researcher |
Field notes | 25 | Field notes taken by researcher after each visit |
Quantitative | Â | Â |
Summary of staff numbers & working hours | 25 | Questionnaire filled out by practice manager |
Social scan | 25 | Details collected for each practice included: RRMA classification, distance from nearest acute hospital and community based services, number of regional general practices, allied health service availability, population data, and regional SES indicators such as unemployment rates |