Development of a comprehensive scoring system to measure multifaceted nursing workloads in ICU

Nursing and Health Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 299-308

  Yamase, Hiroaki ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Critical care; Intensive care units; Nine equivalents of nursing manpower use score; Nursing intervention score; Nursing workload; Therapeutic intervention scoring system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JOB PERFORMANCE; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL STRESS; MUSCLE EXERCISE; NURSING; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORKING TIME; WORKLOAD;

DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSES; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS; TIME FACTORS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0345170781     PISSN: 14410745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2018.2003.00165.x     Document Type: Article

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