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Table 3 Percent of nurses who indicated that various tasks were a significant part of their work

From: The changing roles of community nurses: the case of health plan nurses in Israel

Healthy lifestyle counseling 91%
Functional and health status assessments 90%
Monitoring specific patients 86%
Deciding which patients to invite to visit 75%
Deciding, on the basis of protocols, computer alerts, and patient assessments whether/when particular patients should be immunized 63%
Changing doses in prescriptions 4%
  1. (From among those nurses who indicated that caring for the chronically ill was their main area of non-routine activity)