Nursing personnel dimensioning and the dependence level of the patient in a school hospital

Authors

  • Gislaine Pinn Gil Hospital Zona Sul de Londrina. Londrina
  • Dagmar Willamowius Vituri Hospital Universitário de Londrina, Universidade Estadual de Londrina
  • Maria do Carmo Lourenço Haddad Universidade Estadual de Londrina
  • Marli Terezinha Oliveira Vannuchi Universidade Estadual de Londrina
  • Fernanda Novaes Moreno Universidade Estadual de Londrina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/ree.v13i3.12549

Keywords:

Personnel dimensioning, Needs assessment, Nursing.

Abstract

The study aimed to analyze the nursing personnel dimensioning in a school hospital compared it to the dependence level of patients admitted in 1998 and 2008 and to compare it to the aging nursing workforce in the same period. In 2009, a comparative, exploratory, descriptive and retrospective study was conducted using secondary data from medical-surgical inpatient care units of a school hospital. Results demonstrated that nursing staff dimensioning is unbalanced in the course of ten years; increasing of the patients’ dependence degree level related to the nursing staff and its functional and chronological aging, more than half of the studied nurses group. It was concluded that the nursing staff did not follow the increasing complexity of care demanded by patients, which is aggravated by reduced working capacity of employees.

Descriptors: Personnel dimensioning; Needs assessment; Nursing.

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Author Biographies

Gislaine Pinn Gil, Hospital Zona Sul de Londrina. Londrina

Enfermeira, Discente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem Fundamental, nível Mestrado, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto (EERP), Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Enfermeira do Hospital Zona Sul de Londrina. Londrina, PR, Brasil. E-mail: lainepinn@gmail.com.

Dagmar Willamowius Vituri, Hospital Universitário de Londrina, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Enfermeira, Discente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem Fundamental, nível Doutorado, EERP, USP. Enfermeira do Hospital Universitário de Londrina, Universidade Estadual de Londrina. Londrina, PR, Brasil. E-mail: dagmar@uel.br.

Maria do Carmo Lourenço Haddad, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Enfermeira, Doutora em Enfermagem. Professor Associado, UEL. Londrina, PR, Brasil. E-mail: haddad@sercomtel.com.br.

Marli Terezinha Oliveira Vannuchi, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Enfermeira, Doutora em Saúde Pública. Professor Associado, UEL. Londrina, PR, Brasil. E-mail: vannuchi@sercomtel.com.br.

Fernanda Novaes Moreno, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Enfermeira. Discente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, nível Mestrado, UEL. Londrina, PR, Brasil. E-mail: fernandanovaes@pop.com.br.

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Published

2011-09-30

How to Cite

1.
Gil GP, Vituri DW, Haddad M do CL, Vannuchi MTO, Moreno FN. Nursing personnel dimensioning and the dependence level of the patient in a school hospital. Rev. Eletr. Enferm. [Internet]. 2011 Sep. 30 [cited 2024 Jul. 17];13(3):456-63. Available from: https://revistas.ufg.br/fen/article/view/12549

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 3 (2011)

Section

Original Article