Evaluation of the nursing workload through the nine equivalents for nursing manpower use scale and the nursing activities score: A prospective correlation study

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 228-233

  Carmona Monge, Francisco Javier ^a,b   Rollán Rodríguez, Gloria M ^b   Quirós Herranz, Cristina ^b   García Gómez, Sonia ^b   Marín Morales, Dolores ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN ALCORCÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Critical care; Nursing staff; Workload

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING CARE; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKLOAD;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING CARE; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84879011940     PISSN: 09643397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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