Multicenter application of a nursing workload measurement scale in adult hospitalization units.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The study aimed to the multicenter application of a nursing workload measurement scale in the internal medicine and surgery adults hospitalization units.

Methods

The study design was a multicenter, observational, and descriptive study. A multicenter application of the MIDENF® nursing workload measurement scale was carried out, which consists of 21 items, and covers the four nursing functions (patient care items, teaching, manager, and researcher), in units of hospitalization of adults of internal medicine and surgery of four different hospitals. Each item contains one or more of the nursing interventions of Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) and has an assigned time, after comparing the real time it takes to perform each intervention with the North America

SUBMITTER: Hellin Gil MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9587386 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature