Type of admission and nursing workload of critical patients: a cross-sectional study.

Juliana Lemos RomanoPaulo Carlos GarciaDaniela Vieira SilvaBruna Roberta Siqueira MouraLilia de Souza Nogueira

Published in: Nursing in critical care (2019)

Identifying the predictive factors of nursing workload favours the appropriate staffing of the critical unit by nurses. However, nurses should not consider the type of admission in predicting the nursing workload required by patients in the ICU.

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