BRAZILIAN SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION ABOUT THE NURSING ACTIVITIES SCORE: AN INTEGRATIVE REVIEW

Abstract

This integrative revision of the literature aimed to identify the profile of Brazilian scientific productions about the Nursing Activities Score and analyze the results in evidence from 2002 to 2010. 17 articles were elected from the following databases: Coordination for Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES, in Portuguese), Latin-American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences; Nursing database; Publisher Medline; Scientific Electronic Library Online and the Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology. The terms Nursing Activities Score and Nursing Workload were used. In the publications, the researchers found the identification of the Nursing Activities Score average, observation of the most heavily-scored elements, the correlation with rates of seriousness and other instruments of dimensioning of personnel, such as application to elderly clients, as much prospective as retrospective, and, further, its creation in informatized form. The goal of viabilizing its use as a practical tool in nursing management is inferred.

Keywords

• Workload
• Administration of human resources
• Nursing
• Intensive therapy unit