The study of time expended on nursing interventions/activities has been shown essential to identify nursing workload. Time expended on nursing assistance is the most difficult variable and not easy to be evaluated, but its knowledge allows to adjust the quantitative and qualitative factors of professionals regarding care demand granting safety to the patients and the nursing staff. Specifically, in maternity wards which adopt the rooming-in system, we consider important our concern due to lack of time values for nursing assistance in relation to the motherchild binomial. Aiming to identify the burden of work in a rooming-in unit, in a teaching hospital, a descriptive, quantitative, observational, transversal, case study was carried out. The methodology used was divided into four phases: identification of mother-child binomial, analyzing patient clinical records and through observation of activities performed by the nursing staff; classification of mother-child binomial activities, according to Nursing Intervention Classification (NIC); validation of the intervention content using workshop techniques and measuring the amount of time expended on nursing interventions adopting the work sampling technique. Fortythree nursing interventions regarding the mother-child binomial assistance were identified and validated regarding six out of the seven NIC Domains. By the work sampling technique, we obtained 4,998 interventions measured which were performed by the nurse staff of this unit. The nurses expended 39% of their time in activities regarding direct care, 43% with indirect care, 11% in personal activities and 7% in work related-activities; yet, the nursing technicians/ assistants expended 50% in direct activities, 28% in indirect activities, 18% personal activities and 4% in work related-activities. The mean time used in the mother-child binomial assistance was 5.8 hours, of which 1.4 h for nurses and 4.5h for nursing technicians/ assistants. The staff productivity reached 85%, which was considered high in relation to data stated in the literature. The Domain of the adopted taxonomy of greatest representativeness for the nursing staff was the Health System Domain, being intervention of Documentation as the most frequent. For the nursing technician/assistants, the Medicament Administration intervention was the most mentioned. When comparing time expended on interventions performed in the rooming-in with estimated time on NIC, it was observed that the mean time measured is within the interval of estimated time expended on NIC, which was found in most of the analyzed interventions. The burden of work regarding mother-child binomial, in this study, corresponded to intermediate care patients, according to Fugulin et al. ´s Patient Classification System (1994), and with the mean time of intermediated assistance preconized by the COFEN Resolution n293/4.

O objetivo desse estudo foi compreender a representação social das puérperas acerca do Alojamento Conjunto (AC). Participaram 23 puérperas internadas no AC do HU-USP. A análise dos dados, obtidos por entrevistas individuais e grupos focais, baseou-se nas Representação Sociais. Uma das representações sobre sua internação mostra sentimento de medo, submissão às rotinas institucionais e equipe de saúde, um misto de acomodação e resistência a maneira impessoal como são tratadas. A Hospitalização: do abandono ao acolhimento, indica como a disponibilidade de interagir dos profissionais atua como elemento de re-significação das representações de abandono e indiferença sobre o atendimento à mulher.

O absenteísmo dos profissionais de enfermagem é um problema complexo para as organizações de saúde, constituindo-se um indicador que necessita ser monitorado. Este estudo objetivou analisar a taxa de absenteísmo dos profissionais de enfermagem em um hospital público de ensino. As ausências por absenteísmo foram coletadas a partir das escalas mensais, no período de janeiro a julho de 2008, e calculadas por meio de planilha eletrônica. Constatou-se um índice médio de absenteísmo de 5,6% para os enfermeiros e de 9,7% para técnicos/auxiliares de enfermagem. As ausências que mais contribuíram para esses índices referiram-se aos afastamentos por doença. Os dados obtidos evidenciaram o principal motivo de absenteísmo e sinalizam a necessidade de mudanças nas políticas de contratação dos profissionais de enfermagem, além da revisão dos processos de trabalho, visando favorecer melhores condições de saúde a esses profissionais.

Considering the need of parameters to know the workload existent in Rooming-in (RI), it is imperative to identify nursing activities in the mother-child binomial. The objectives of the study are: to identify nursing activities in the Rooming-In Unit of the HU-USP; to classify activities in nursing interventions according to the Nursing Intervention Classification (NIC), and to validate the interventions. A survey of all activities was carried out by means of clinical records and direct observation of nursing assistance in all the shifts. The content of interventions was validated with the nurses of unit, by means of the workshop technique. It was identified 43 direct and indirect nursing interventions; activities associated and personal activities of the staff. The instrument built with the number of these interventions/activities will permit to, in further studies, correlate the time expended to perform these interventions/activities and thus to propose parameters to measure the need of nursing professionals in RI.