Nurses´ time distribution in emergency unit / Distribuição do tempo de trabalho das enfermeiras em unidade de emergência

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The difficulties found to make operational the nursery personnel sizing methods at the emergency units are directly related to the lack of studies and parameters that would give nurses resources to determine the nursing staff. Facing that scenario, this study`s aim was to identify and analyze the work time distribution of nurses in an emergency unit as well as calculate the average time spent by these professionals at nursing activities. This is a prospective, quantitative, exploratory-descriptive type field research, conducted in a large, general, universitary hospital in the city of São Paulo. To achieve the above mentioned objectives a working sample method was used. To identify the nurses activities, patient charts were used as well as the observation of the nurses routine at Unit, which were later categorized in accordance with the standard language system (NIC) and classified as direct care and indirect care interventions, associated activities and personal time. Data were collected between November 11th through 14th, 2008, by six field observers, specifically trained for this task. 1512 samples were obtained from the nurses activities. The nursing activities and interventions that most used work time of the nurses were, showing that the activities that took more time from the nurses were: Shift Report (8,79%), Admission Care (7,40%), Documentation (6,74%), Health Care Information Exchange (5,42%), Delegation (4,36%), Transport (3,44%), Staff Supervision (2,91%) and Discharge Planning and Medication Administration: Intravenous (IV) (2,12%). It was observed that 35% of the nurses time was dedicated to indirect care interventions, 35% to direct care nursing interventions, 18% to personal time activities and 12% to related activities. The average productivity of these professionals achieved 82%, considered an excellent standard according to evaluation criteria shown in specific literature. The comparative analysis of the identified time estimated by NIC allowed to verify that 54,4% presented time intervals aligned by those estimated by NIC. This study gives perspectives to new investigations that could contribute to the identification of new parameters that could help to establish the necessary nursing staff for emergency services

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administração de recursos humanos serviços médicos de emergência amostragem do trabalho time management human resource administration classification classificação work sample medical emergency system gerenciamento do tempo

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