Caracterização do perfil assistencial dos pacientes adultos de um pronto-socorro / Characterization of the care profile of adult patients of an emergency medical service

AUTOR(ES)

Renato Ohara

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The emergency medical service is the hospital ward designated to outpatient care with or without death risk for those who need immediate care, whose attendance is 24 hours a day, being essential the determination of a required number of nursing professionals for delivering satisfactory quality care, since the lack of nursing professionals with different levels of background and work overload increase the risk of errors, impairing the quality of patient care. The instruments of patient classification are used by nursing in any care ward and set up the characteristics of the population assisted, according to the need of care required, being vital for determining the personnel needs and its quantitative and qualitative allocation. Aiming to characterize the adult patient care profile throughout the admission at the emergency medical service, as a support for nursing personnel dimensioning, it was developed an exploratory research in a study of case method, at a clinic and surgical emergency room of a general, public state hospital that holds 24 observation beds and 10 beds at the emergency attendance ward, located at the extreme east of São Paulo city and which works with spontaneous demand of users. The subjects of research were adult patients admitted at the emergency ward and the observation rooms throughout the month of January, 2009. Data was collected through the application of an instrument of patient classification by Fugulin (2002), which evaluates nine care areas (Mental Status, Oxygenation, Vital Signs, Motility, walking, Feeding, Body Care, Elimination and Therapeutics). It was made 1228 evaluations, in which 91 patients in the intensive care category were verified, 75 in the semiintensive care, 245 with high dependence of nursing care, 272 with intermediate care complexity and 545 with minimal one. There was the evidence of many psychiatric patients admitted in the emergency room waiting for a vacancy in the specialized ward requiring from the nursing staff special care for keeping the physical integrity of those patients. It was verified by the monthly average number of attendance that most emergency room users didnt need admission, but they were attracted to this service in search for routine appointments, leading to overload the multi-professional team that works in this ward, which presented an average occupancy rate above the prediction of official beds available, making the physical space inadequate for patients and professionals, due to the admissions in beds spread in corridors, result of lack of service control.

ASSUNTO(S)

equipe de enfermagem. classificação de pacientes patient classification personnel dimensioning dimensionamento de pessoal nursing staff. pronto-socorro emergency medical service

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