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Time standards of nursing in Primary Health Care: an observational study *

Overview of attention for article published in Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, February 2016
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Title
Time standards of nursing in Primary Health Care: an observational study *
Published in
Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, February 2016
DOI 10.1590/s0080-623420160000100016
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Daiana Bonfim, Fernanda Maria Togeiro Fugulin, Ana Maria Laus, Marina Peduzzi, Raquel Rapone Gaidzinski

Abstract

OBJECTIVE To determine time standards for interventions and activities conducted by nursing professionals in Family Health Units (FHU) in Brazil to substantiate the calculation of work force. METHOD This was an observational study carried out in 27 FHU, in 12 municipalities in 10 states, in 2013. In each unit, nursing professionals were observed every 10 minutes, for eight work hours, on five consecutive days via the work sampling technique. RESULTS A total of 32,613 observations were made, involving 47 nurses and 93 nursing technicians/assistants. Appointments were the main intervention carried out by nurses, with a mean time of 25.3 minutes, followed by record-keeping, which corresponded to 9.7%. On average, nursing technicians/assistants spent 6.3% of their time keeping records and 30.6 intervention minutes on immunization/vaccination control. CONCLUSION The study resulted in standard times of interventions carried out by the FHU nursing team, which can underpin the determination of nursing staff size and human resource policies. Furthermore, the study showed the panorama of interventions currently employed, allowing for the work process to be reviewed and optimized.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 33 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 4 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 12%
Lecturer 3 9%
Researcher 3 9%
Professor 3 9%
Other 6 18%
Unknown 10 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 15%
Social Sciences 3 9%
Psychology 1 3%
Decision Sciences 1 3%
Other 5 15%
Unknown 11 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 January 2018.
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#2,310,029
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