Abstract

FERREIRA, Maria Teresa; FERNANDES, Joaquim Filipe; JESUS, Rui Alberto  and  ARAUJO, Isabel Maria. Emergency room approach: safe nursing staffing. Rev. Enf. Ref. [online]. 2020, vol.serV, n.1, pp.e19086-e19086. ISSN 0874-0283.  https://doi.org/10.12707/RIV19086.

Background: The prognosis of the critically ill person in the emergency room depends on the effective performance of the health team in operation. Objectives: To understand and justify the need to allocate a nurse who works exclusively in the assistance to patients in the emergency room of a hospital in the Great Lisbon and Tagus Valley region with multipurpose emergency service. Methodology: Retrospective, descriptive, exploratory, and quantitative study, with a sample of 3185 critically ill patients. Data collection through observation grid. Statistical analysis was performed using the IBM SPSS Statistics software, version 25.0. The Kruskal-Wallis test and chi-square test were used. Results: In 2017, an average of 9 patients per day were admitted in the emergency room. The direct care delivered lasted, on average, 45.4 minutes, 65% were admitted to the surgical admission unit service or the area of clinical observation of the emergency department. Conclusion: It is crucial to ensure safe staffing in care delivery to the critically ill person, being necessary a nurse working exclusively in the emergency room.

Keywords : emergency; emergency room; nursing; safe staffing.

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