Categorización de usuarios: una herramienta para evaluar las cargas de trabajo de enfermería

Background: Client categorization is a management tool that allows an objective and structured assessment of the care demands imposed by patients and nursing workloads. Aim: To characterize the need for direct nursing care of patients admitted to a university hospital. Patients and methods: During t...

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Autores principales:	García G,M Angélica, Castillo F,Luis
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2000
Materias:	Nurse-patient relations Nursing Nursing Service Hospital Workload
Acceso en línea:	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872000000200007
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988720000002000072014-05-06Categorización de usuarios: una herramienta para evaluar las cargas de trabajo de enfermeríaGarcía G,M AngélicaCastillo F,Luis Nurse-patient relations Nursing Nursing Service Hospital Workload Background: Client categorization is a management tool that allows an objective and structured assessment of the care demands imposed by patients and nursing workloads. Aim: To characterize the need for direct nursing care of patients admitted to a university hospital. Patients and methods: During two months, all patients admitted to intensive, intermediate care units and general services were categorized, their need for nursing care and the time invested by nurses in their care was registered. All patients were classified as maximal, high, median or low risk and as independent, totally or partially dependent on nursing care. Considering four degrees of risk and three degrees of dependency, 12 categories of patients were defined. Results: Patients admitted to intensive care units were of maximal risk and totally dependent and required 1 nurse per 2.2 patients. Those admitted in intermediate care units required 1 nurse per 3.8 patients and those in general services, 1 nurse per 11.5 patients. Conclusions: Client categorization is a reproducible method that determines a standard measuring unit to define nursing needs. This allows the comparison of workloads between different services within a hospital or between hospitalsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.128 n.2 20002000-02-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872000000200007es10.4067/S0034-98872000000200007
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topic	Nurse-patient relations Nursing Nursing Service Hospital Workload
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description	Background: Client categorization is a management tool that allows an objective and structured assessment of the care demands imposed by patients and nursing workloads. Aim: To characterize the need for direct nursing care of patients admitted to a university hospital. Patients and methods: During two months, all patients admitted to intensive, intermediate care units and general services were categorized, their need for nursing care and the time invested by nurses in their care was registered. All patients were classified as maximal, high, median or low risk and as independent, totally or partially dependent on nursing care. Considering four degrees of risk and three degrees of dependency, 12 categories of patients were defined. Results: Patients admitted to intensive care units were of maximal risk and totally dependent and required 1 nurse per 2.2 patients. Those admitted in intermediate care units required 1 nurse per 3.8 patients and those in general services, 1 nurse per 11.5 patients. Conclusions: Client categorization is a reproducible method that determines a standard measuring unit to define nursing needs. This allows the comparison of workloads between different services within a hospital or between hospitals
author	García G,M Angélica Castillo F,Luis
author_facet	García G,M Angélica Castillo F,Luis
author_sort	García G,M Angélica
title	Categorización de usuarios: una herramienta para evaluar las cargas de trabajo de enfermería
title_short	Categorización de usuarios: una herramienta para evaluar las cargas de trabajo de enfermería
title_full	Categorización de usuarios: una herramienta para evaluar las cargas de trabajo de enfermería
title_fullStr	Categorización de usuarios: una herramienta para evaluar las cargas de trabajo de enfermería
title_full_unstemmed	Categorización de usuarios: una herramienta para evaluar las cargas de trabajo de enfermería
title_sort	categorización de usuarios: una herramienta para evaluar las cargas de trabajo de enfermería
publisher	Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate	2000
url	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872000000200007
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Categorización de usuarios: una herramienta para evaluar las cargas de trabajo de enfermería

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