Nursing dimensioning in nephrology

Abstract

The aim was to compare the dimensioning of nursing staff proposed by Raquel Rapone Gaidzinski, Fernanda Maria Tojeiro Fugulin and Valéria Castilho on “MANAGEMENT IN NURSING” coordinated by Paulina Kurcgant with the guidelines of the Resolution of the Collegiate Board of Directors - RDC No. 154 of June 15^th, 2004. This is a retrospective and descriptive study of the dimensioning of the nursing team working in the Hemodialysis Service of a University Hospital in the Municipality of Campinas. The comparison between the existing nursing staff in the Hemodialysis Service of the Hospital of the Municipality of Campinas and the projected one showed a shortage of 9 nurses, absence of 4 assistants and an excess of 2 nursing technicians. The analysis of the intervening variables in the nursing process indicated the need to reorganize the work process regarding the grouping of patients by complexity, suggesting the application, adaptation and validation of an instrument in hemodialysis.