Effect of a medical technologist’s presence in a ward in medium-scale facilities

YOSHIDA Isao, ITABASHI Takumi, KAKISHIMA Hiroshi, SUGIOKA Yui, FUKAZAWA Keiji, MARUTA Hideo, YOKOCHI Tsunehiro

doi:10.14932/jamt.17-25

<p>Medical technology procedures are performed for monitoring a patient’s clinical condition as well as treatment. A medical technologist should cooperate with doctors, nurses and other staff members and show their ability to a patient. From a given background, we determine the effect of a medical technologist’s presence in a ward in cooperation with the Japanese Association of Medical Technologists (JAMT). After obtaining the consent an inspection department, we explained medical technologist’s presence to the facility’s chief, nurses’ chief director and purser together with JAMT and obtained an agreement regarding field verification. After selecting the ward and defining the objectives, and contents of this study, a preliminary training and a questionnaire survey of the actual business conditions were carried out. “Patient’s information management” took an average of 68.0 minutes for a medical technician to complete as a task in a ward. “Extraction of a sample” took an average of 54.2 minutes as a business content of a medical technician in a ward. For all businesses, the total time was 5 hours and 11.9 minutes. The questionnaire results indicated that the burdened feeling of nurse is eliminated. The tasks that I would like to leave to a medical technician are electrocardiography and blood testing. The others are the explanation of results to patients and blood sugar measurement for each check. It was indicated that an explanation for each check should be given to patients.</p>

Effect of a medical technologist’s presence in a ward in medium-scale facilities

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