Here you find the correct answers to the questions.
Question 1: Indicate the interval where the highest number of nurse respondents indicated their caseload to be (Caseload: number of individual persons with MS seen once or multiple times per year, by one nurse).
59% (n=75/127) of respondents have a caseload >300 PwMS per year, who they see ≥2 times/year, spending between 30 minutes and 3 hours
including consultation and follow-up tasks at each visit.
The survey thus confirms that a caseload of in excess of 300 PwMS is common among MS Nurses.
The correct answer is therefore: between 300 and 500
Question 2: To what tasks do nurses caring for PwMS commit most of their time?
Nurses (n=127) dedicate the majority of their time to symptom management, completion of necessary paperwork, treatment selection/monitoring and educating the PwMS and their family.
The correct answer is therefore: Symptom management
Question 3: What is the third most task, nurses caring for PwMS leave 'un-done'?
Work left unfinished due to time constraints includes clinical trials, social benefits advice, diagnostic procedures and paperwork completion.
Over half of nurses surveyed have no or limited administrative support.
Clinical trials are the task that is most often left 'un-done'.
Next comes Social interventions/benefits advice
And as third most tasks come Completion of necessary paperwork and Diagnostic procedures
The correct answer is: Completion of necessary paperwork and Diagnostic procedures
Q4: What, according to the nurses surveyed, is the number three priority of potential solutions to ease the workload of nurses caring for PwMS?
The findings indicate that the nursing community is advocating for an increase in the number of nurse colleagues (57%), increased access to psychological support for the PwMS (54%), and the ability for nurses to refer to a multidisciplinary care team (52,8%).
Correct answer is: the ability for nurses to refer to a multidisciplinary care team.