Panunto Marcia Raquel, Guirardello Edinêis de Brito
Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, RN, Brazil.
Rev Lat Am Enfermagem. 2009 Nov-Dec;17(6):1009-14. doi: 10.1590/s0104-11692009000600013.
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.
护士面临的最大挑战之一是需要为护理服务的人员数量和质量提供合理依据。为此，有一些管理工具可帮助他们确定护理团队所需的人员。这项描述性研究旨在评估一家专门的临床和外科胃肠病科的护理工作量。为收集数据，在连续30天内使用了护理活动评分（NAS），从149名患者的记录中获得了1080条评论。NAS的平均评分为34.9%，考虑到NAS的每一分对应0.24小时，平均而言，24小时内需要8.4小时的护理。这意味着这类患者需要中级和半强化护理，这表明NAS研究可用于评估该科室护士的工作量。
