Aspectos quali-quantitativos do dimensionamento de pessoal de enfermagem.

Abstract

The staff nurse dimensioning is considered a main stage the staffing process, and the instrument for a great assistance. This one depends on the knowledge about the existing wordload in the unit, the assistance needs and the desired standard of care. The Nursing Federal Council sets out parameters to the Staff Dimensioning of Nursing Professionals in the Assistance Units based on patient classification system. Given this context, the study has as objective based on the degree of dependence of clients in care actions, and propose the appropriate staff dimensioning. The search had a qualitative and quantitative approach, exploratory descriptive kind, supported in the literature review and documentary research. It was used during 30 days the score of Schein / Rensis Likert to the classification of patients from a clinical inpatient unit of a hospital, and besides, other relevant informations have been collected as occupancy rate and work regime. Afterwards, data have been transcribed, organized and analyzed. The analysis showed the patient group with minimal prevalent care needs, and from this finding was made the staff dimensioning calculation. The results showed the deficit of professional nurses in the unit. So it is concluded that the dimensioning is scientific subsidy to justify the recruitment of staff, but does not exclude relevant aspects to the organization of the work process to a great assistance.