[Dimensioning nursing staff: analysis of the nurse's work at the pediatric ICU of HU-USP].
The purposes of this study were to evaluate effective time of the nurse's work during the morning shift at the Pediatric ICU of HU-USP, to identify percentage of effective time of work of these nurses dedicated to direct and indirect assistance and to determine the index of productivity of the professionals doing a retrospective analysis of daily activities records. The mean of the effective time a month of these nurses' work corresponded to 275.5 minutes, of which 49.9% were related to indirect and 50.1% to direct assistance. According to the evaluation criterion available in the literature, the productivity index found is between satisfactory and excellent.
Ricardo
Carolina Martins
CM
Escolade Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo.
Fugulin
Fernanda Maria Togeiro
FM
Souza
Telma Moreira
TM
D007362:Intensive Care Units; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013997:Time Factors; D016526:Workload / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*