Unfinished nursing care in healthcare settings during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review

Table 3 Unfinished nursing care occurrence in studies using the perceived implicit rationing of nursing care [1]

Interventions	Schneider-Matyka et al. [50]	Yuwanto et al. [56]
Assistance with physical care
Routine hygiene		••
Routine skin care		•••
Change soiled linen
Assist with ambulation	•	••
Assist with repositioning	•
Assist with bowel and bladder elimination		•••
Assist with oral nutrition and hydration		••
Promote physical comfort/pain control
Implementation of prescribed treatment plan
Medication administration
Enteral and parenteral nutrition
Wound care
Dressing changes
IV therapy		•
Infection control practices
Emotional support and teaching
Teaching patient or family	•
Prepare patient or family for treatments/procedures
Offer emotional or psychological support	•••	•
Surveillance/vigilance
Monitoring physiological status
Monitoring behaviour		•
Monitoring safety
Follow-up on status changes/requests/unclear orders
Timely response to requests	••
Supervise delegated tasks	••
Evaluate the plan of care
Coordination of care and discharge planning
Converse with team members	•••
Converse with external agency	•••	•••
Converse with patient regarding discharge	••
Documentation
Review documentation	••
Document initiation/revision of plan of care
Document assessments and monitoring activities
Document care/interventions

Legend: **, as first, second and third unfinished activities in order, according to the statistical values (1st,2nd,3rd); 4th,5th,6th order; 7th,8th,9th order; ^a, this study focused only on the overall score of the tool (see Supp. File 4)

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