In view of the significant impact of an excessively high workload on both the patients and the nurses, determining the number of nurses needed in order to offer high-quality care on a ward has been a challenge for some time now. The overall aim of this book is to make a step towards the development of a workload measurement tool. This book can help to develop a workload measurement tool, by the development of a methodology for determining standard times of nursing activities, the construction of a workload model, the identification and quantification of factors influencing the nursing...