WORKLOAD MEASSUREMENT OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT RUMAH SAKIT DAERAH BAGAS WARAS KLATEN

Abstract

Emergency Department becomes one of the most crowded and stressfully part of a hospital worldwide. Emergency physician as the person in charge for whole time carry enormous burden both physically and psychologically. Rumah Sakit Daerah Bagas Waras Klaten as newly operated hospital is still in developing phase currently facing one of problem which is employment planning. There is no data whether the emergency physician working at Emergency Department has already assigned with proper workload, thus this study examines this particular issue. The research conducted workload defines as the amount of time emergency physician spent during work shift specifically for emergency clinical purpose, displayed as unit time of hour per week and summed up for a month duration. The study result shows that emergency physician workload is 119 hours which below standard of 160 hours according government of Republic Indonesia declared in Undang-undang No 13 Tahun 2003 about Employment (Ketenagakerjaan). Further research with more complex and detailed study objects is needed to get more in-depth understanding of emergency physician workload.