Project objectives
Primary endpoint:
- Analyze what the predictors of nursing workload are in medical-surgical care units in order to correctly size the nursing staff
- Evaluate how the complexity of care of patients hospitalized in medicine and surgery impacts on the nursing workload and whether it changes during hospitalization.
Secondary endpoints:
- Analyze the nursing workload with the use of standardized tools that identify the ratio of the number of patients entrusted to each nurse.
- Identify the dynamics and activities within the shift that increase the workload perceived by the nurse.
- Evaluate the outcomes of the nursing workload on both the nurse and the patient.
- Validate the new PCA-patient complexity assessment tool in order to monitor progress by type of hospitalization and day of hospitalization
- Identify for each type of complexity what the nursing interventions are and their frequency.
- Track the times of direct nursing care for each level of complexity and for each patient in 24 hours. |
Start and end date
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| February 2021 - December 2023 |
Project Manager
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| Daniela Tartaglini - Principal Investigator |
Coordinating institution of the project
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Assistance Directorate of Health Professions (DAPS)
Campus Bio-Medico Polyclinic Foundation |
Other Institutions involved
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- ASL Rome 2: Sandro Pertini Hospital, Sant'Eugenio Hospital
- ASL Lecce: Vito Fazzi Hospital
- IRCSS Ismett, Palermo
- ASST Sette Laghi, Varese
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