Demandas de atenção do enfermeiro de unidades de cuidados criticos / Attention demands of nurse in the critical care units

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

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In the critical care units (CCUs), the nurse is exposed to multiple sources of demand of attention that require a higher level of concentration to deal with them. The aims of this study developed under the research field Caring Process in Nursing and Health were: 1) characterize the nurses with relation to the sociodemographic and professional variable, 2) to identify the perception of the adequacy of the environment of work for the nurses, 3) to identify the situations of demands of attention of the nurse in units of critical cares, 4) to verify if exist differences in the perception of these demands by nurses from the CCUs and in relation the sociodemographic and professional variables and 5) to describe the strategies pointed by nurses in order to deal with these sources of demands. For the collection was used the instruments: Sociodemographic characterization, Characterization of the Environment of Work and Demands of nurse attention. A total of 60 nurses from five CCUs of a private hospital in the city of São Paulo took part of this study. Most of the nurses were female, single and had some level of degree like specializacion in the area. The situations of higher demands of attention were: "to observe a patient suffering", "to take care of families with emotional needs", "necessity to give to orientation the family" and "high level of racket in the unit". The analysis showed some statistical differences in the sources of demands perceived by nurses and sociodemographic variables like marital status, shift work, time of professional experience, time of work in the unit and hours worked in the week. There were statistical differences for eleven situations in relation to the sources of demands judged by nurses. They also pointed out some strategies to deal with the sources of demand that were related to and others are independent to the work environment. It was confirmed internal consistency of the instrument, with α=0,90. The knowledge of these demands by nurses and managers will help them to stablish strategies in order to minimize these sources of demands in the workplace.

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atenção cuidados criticos critical care enfermagem nursing attention

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