title: [Nurses' time distribution: identification and analysis in a medical-surgical unit].
abstract: This study was performed to identify and analyze the distribution of nurses' work hours at a medical-surgical hospitalization unit, in view of the impact on making the nursing personnel dimensioning process effective during their work hours. Of the activities that nurses performed, 50% of the nurses' time was invested on indirect care interventions, 22% on direct care interventions, 18% on personal time activities, and 10% on associated activities. These data confirm previous reports that show a need to consider nursing personnel's personal time and associated activities in the official rightsizing methods.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Terapia Intensiva do Hospital e Maternidade São Camilo Pompéia, São Paulo, SP, Brasil. bordin@uol.com.br
authors.forename: Luiz Carlos
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Bordin
authors.forename: Fernanda Maria Togeiro
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Fugulin
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009729:Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital; D017748:Time Management; D016526:Workload / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*