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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)