Nurses all over are suffer from heavy workload with the result that quality of patient care is at times compromised. In a time-motion study by Anya Satheesh et al conducted in a multispecialty hospital in Kozhikode (Kerala) to assess the workload of nurses, analysis of data from 45 nurses revealed that their utmost time (53.9%) was spent on indirect patient care activities, and very little time (3%) as personal time (as against the allocated 8% time)