• Rev Bras Ter Intensiva · Jul 2014

    Nursing Activities Score and workload in the intensive care unit of a university hospital.

    • Juliana Aparecida Morini Altafin, Cintia Magalhães Carvalho Grion, Marcos Toshyiuki Tanita, Josiane Festti, Lucienne Tibery Queiroz Cardoso, Caio Fabrício Fonseca Veiga, Danielle Kamiji, Álan Roger Gomes Barbosa, Caio Cesar Takeshi Matsubara, Aline Bobato Lara, Cesar Castello Branco Lopes, Djavani Blum, and Tiemi Matsuo.
    • Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brasil.
    • Rev Bras Ter Intensiva. 2014 Jul 1; 26 (3): 292-8.

    ObjectiveThe nursing workload consists of the time spent by the nursing staff to perform the activities for which they are responsible, whether directly or indirectly related to patient care. The aim of this study was to evaluate the nursing workload in an adult intensive care unit at a university hospital using the Nursing Activities Score (NAS) instrument.MethodsA longitudinal, prospective study that involved the patients admitted to the intensive care unit of a university hospital between March and December 2008. The data were collected daily to calculate the NAS, the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II), the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) and the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System (TISS-28) of patients until they left the adult intensive care unit or after 90 days of hospitalization. The level of significance was set at 5%.ResultsIn total, 437 patients were evaluated, which resulted in an NAS of 74.4%. The type of admission, length of stay in the intensive care unit and the patients' condition when leaving the intensive care unit and hospital were variables associated with differences in the nursing workload. There was a moderate correlation between the mean NAS and APACHE II severity score (r=0.329), the mean organic dysfunction SOFA score (r=0.506) and the mean TISS-28 score (r=0.600).ConclusionWe observed a high nursing workload in this study. These results can assist in planning the size of the staff required. The workload was influenced by clinical characteristics, including an increased workload required for emergency surgical patients and patients who died.

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