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- Title
Nursing workload in an inpatient unit.
- Authors
de Brito, Ana Paula; Guirardello, Edinêis de Brito
- Abstract
This study evaluated the nursing workload in an inpatient unit of a university hospital. This descriptive study applied the Nursing Activities Score (NAS) over the course of 30 consecutive days. A total of 1,080 observations were obtained from the medical files of 156 patients. The average scored obtained in the NAS instrument was 47.31%. Considering that each single NAS score corresponds to 0.24 hours, an average of 11.35 hours of nursing care was required. This amount of hours correspond to the profile of inpatients demanding semi-intensive and intensive care, suggesting that the NAS can be used to evaluate the workload of the nursing staff in this unit.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; ACADEMIC medical centers; CHI-squared test; FISHER exact test; RESEARCH methodology; NURSING; INDUSTRIAL psychology; U-statistics; EMPLOYEES' workload; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; HOSPITAL nursing staff
- Publication
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (RLAE), 2011, Vol 19, Issue 5, p1139
- ISSN
1518-8345
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S0104-11692011000500011