Nursing workload at a gastroenterology unit

Authors

  • Marcia Raquel Panunto Universidade Estadual de Campinas; Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
  • Edinêis de Brito Guirardello Universidade Estadual de Campinas; Faculdade de Ciências Médicas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11692009000600013

Keywords:

workload, nursing assessment, nursing staff

Abstract

One of the biggest challenges nurses face is the need to justify the quantity and quality of staff for care delivery. For this, management instruments are available which help them to determine the staff needed in the nursing team. This descriptive study aims to evaluate the nursing workload at a specialized clinical and surgical gastroenterology unit. To collect data, the Nursing Activities Score (NAS) was used during 30 consecutive days, with 1080 comments, obtained from the records of 149 patients. The mean NAS score was 34.9% and, considering that each point of NAS corresponds to 0.24 hour, on the average, 8.4 hours of nursing care were required within 24 hours. This means that this profile is of patients who demand intermediate and semi-intensive care, which suggests that the NAS study can be used to evaluate the workload of nurses at that unit.

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Published

2009-12-01

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 6 (2009)

Section

Original Articles

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How to Cite

Nursing workload at a gastroenterology unit. (2009). Revista Latino-Americana De Enfermagem, 17(6), 1009-1014. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11692009000600013