Nurse workload in implementing a tight glycaemic control protocol in a UK hospital: a pilot time-in-motion study.

Aims And Objectives: The cumulative time that critical care nurses spend implementing a tight glycaemic control (TGC) protocol was estimated in a time-in-motion (TiM) study conducted in a hospital in the UK.

Background: TGC protocols were introduced to the critical care setting to reduce hyperglycaemic events in high-risk patients. The time burden to critical care nurses of implementing such protocols has not yet been studied in the UK.