Nursing Workload and care required by older adults in intensive care
Joathan Borges Ribeiro,
Francine Jomara Lopes,
Ana Carolina de Lima Barbosa
et al.
Abstract:Objective To analyze the workload and nursing care requirements of elderly people admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) compared to adults. Method Cross-sectional study carried out in two ICUs of two hospitals (public and private) in the metropolitan region of São Paulo. The following variables were extracted from the electronic medical records of patients admitted to the units in 2019: age, gender, length of ICU stay, Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS 3) and Nursing Activities Score (NAS). The da… Show more
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