O impacto da utilização do NAS, como forma de qualificação e gestão em terapia intensiva

Abstract

This research had as purpose to understand what the impact of the use of patient classification system, Nursing Activities Score (NAS) as a way to qualify the nursing care and management in intensive care. General purpose-use in order to assess the degree of complexity of patients and use it as a way to qualify the assistance and the management of nursing in intensive care services. The study is justified from the premise that the NAS is based mainly on specific activities of the nursing staff in intensive therapy units contributing to the assistance for the management of these units and describes roughly twice as much time spent for nursing in critical patients care when compared to other classification systems. In this way taking into account the attributes of this instrument to its specificity to measure the workload in ICU and the possibility to compare it in different units was deemed pertinent to your choice for use in research. Methodologically the study can be characterized as a quantitative descriptive and exploratory research, case study type. In this study were surveyed data from medical records of patients admitted to intensive care. With reference to the ethical care is observed in Resolução196/96. The results indicate that the Nas is an important resource for the quantitative definition of personnel, and, consequently, an important management strategy.