title: Financial impact of nursing professionals staff required in an Intensive Care Unit.
abstract: to calculate the cost of the average time of nursing care spent and required by patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the financial expense for the right dimension of staff of nursing professionals.
  
  
  
  a descriptive, quantitative research, using the case study method, developed in adult ICU patients. We used the workload index - Nursing Activities Score; the average care time spent and required and the amount of professionals required were calculated using equations and from these data, and from the salary composition of professionals and contractual monthly time values, calculated the cost of direct labor of nursing.
  
  
  
  the monthly cost of the average quantity of available professionals was US$ 35,763.12, corresponding to 29.6 professionals, and the required staff for 24 hours of care is 42.2 nurses, with a monthly cost of US$ 50,995.44.
  
  
  
  the numerical gap of nursing professionals was 30% and the monthly financial expense for adaptation of the structure is US$ 15,232.32, which corresponds to an increase of 42.59% in the amounts currently paid by the institution.
authors.affiliation: MSc, RN, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Thamiris Ricci de
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Araújo
authors.affiliation: MSc, RN, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Mayra Gonçalves
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Menegueti
authors.affiliation: PhD, Professor, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Auxiliadora-Martins
authors.affiliation: PhD, Associate Professor, Escola de Enfermagem, São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Valéria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Castilho
authors.affiliation: PhD, Associate Professor, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Lucieli Dias Pedreschi
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Chaves
authors.affiliation: PhD, Associate Professor, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ana Maria
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Laus
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000191:economics*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D013997:Time Factors; D000078329:Workforce; D016526:Workload / Q000191:economics