Nursing workload measurement scales in Intensive Care Units. Correlation between NAS and NEMS

• Main Authors: Montserrat Martínez Lareo (Author), Francisco Javier Carmona Monge (Author), Gloria Mª Rollán Rodríguez (Author), Cristina Quirós Herranz (Author), Sonia García Gómez (Author), Ana Jara Pérez (Author), Rosana Alameda Varela (Author), Isabel Cerrillo González (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Enfermería, 2011-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The high costs of intensive care and the importance of patient safety and quality of care highlight the need to develop instrument to measure, as precisely as possible, nursing workload and staffing levels in intensive care. To assess the ideal staff number, we need instruments to measure the real n...