OBJECTIVE To map the sub processes related to turnover of nursing staff and to investigate and measure the nursing turnover cost. METHOD This is a descriptive-exploratory study, classified as case study, conducted in a teaching hospital in the southeastern, Brazil, in the period from May to November 2013. The population was composed by the nursing staff, using Nursing Turnover Cost Calculation Methodology. RESULTS The total cost of turnover was R$314.605,62, and ranged from R$2.221,42 to R$3.073,23 per employee. The costs of pre-hire totaled R$101.004,60 (32,1%), and the hiring process consumed R$92.743,60 (91.8%) The costs of post-hire totaled R$213.601,02 (67,9%), for the sub process decreased productivity, R$199.982,40 (93.6%). CONCLUSION The study identified the importance of managing the cost of staff turnover and the financial impact of the cost of the employee termination, which represented three times the average salary of the nursing staff.
a b s t r a c tPremixed fuel-air flame propagation is investigated in a single-cylinder, spark-ignited, four-stroke optical test engine using high-speed imaging. Circles and ellipses are fitted onto image projections of visible light emitted by the flames. The images are subsequently analysed to statistically evaluate: flame area; flame speed; centroid; perimeter; and various flame-shape descriptors. Results are presented for gasoline, isooctane, E85 and M85. The experiments were conducted at stoichiometric conditions for each fuel, at two engine speeds of 1200 rpm (rpm) and 1500 rpm, which are at 40% and 50% of rated engine speed. Furthermore, different fuel and speed sets were investigated under two compression ratios (CR: 5.00 and 8.14). Statistical tools were used to analyse the large number of data obtained, and it was found that flame speed distribution showed agreement with the normal distribution. Comparison of results assuming spherical and non-isotropic propagation of flames indicate non-isotropic flame propagation should be considered for the description of in-cylinder processes with higher accuracy. The high temporal resolution of the sequence of images allowed observation of the spark-ignition delay process. The results indicate that gasoline and isooctane have somewhat similar flame propagation behaviour. Additional differences between these fuels and E85 and M85 were also recorded and identified.
Objetivo: aferir os custos diretos médios de curativos de úlceras vasculogênicas realizados por profissionais de enfermagem em pacientes atendidos por uma Unidade de Tratamento Integral de Ferida.
Método: Pesquisa quantitativa, exploratório-descritiva, conduzida numa Unidade de Tratamento Integral de Ferida, localizada em Vitória da Conquista, Bahia - Brasil, em março, agosto e setembro de 2020. Calcularam-se os custos multiplicando-se o tempo despendido (cronometrado) pelos profissionais pelo custo da mão de obra direta, somando-se aos custos dos insumos. Análise de dados com estatística descritiva.
Resultados: O custo direto médio total foi de US$11.90 (DP±10.79) para os curativos ambulatoriais (n=42), US$7.22 (DP±8.69) para os domiciliares (n=22) e US$3.10 (DP±2.57) para os hospitalares (n=11), com expressiva contribuição dos custos com terapia tópica: US$9.82 (DP±10.55), US$5.60 (DP±8.43) e US$1.30 (DP±0.22) respectivamente.
Conclusão: os resultados poderão subsidiar a revisão dos insumos requeridos para os curativos de úlceras vasculogênicas, notadamente, das terapias tópicas e materiais/soluções.
Objectives: to analyze the scientific production of nurses regarding the costs of procedures/interventions performed by nursing professionals. Methods: integrative literature review with a sample of 17 primary articles selected from the CINAHL, Scopus, EMBASE databases and the PubMed portal. Results: all studies were conducted in hospitals, with quantitative, exploratory-descriptive studies, considering the case study method, with the description of costs method adopted, and the number of Brazilian publications stood out (12; 70.58%). The calculation of direct costs was most common due to the absence/difficulty of accessing information in the studied hospitals. This made it impossible to obtain the indirect costs that would be necessary for the composition of the total cost. Conclusions: it was shown that studies about the cost of procedures/interventions are still scarce, often covering only the calculation of direct costs. Nurses need to develop studies on such costs using the same methodology in different contexts of health care.
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