Nursing workload in rooming-in at a university hospital
Joint accommodation; Postpartum period; Nursing assessment; Nursing care.
The nursing team has sought to ensure care with scientific support and autonomy, and for this it is necessary to dimension coherent nursing professionals. Since rooming-in is the place within a hospital system where the mother and newborn will go soon after birth and continue together until hospital discharge. From this perspective, this study has guiding questions: which care indicators arouse a greater need for care in postpartum women and newborns? And what classifications exist for the binomial in rooming-in?. The general objective is to apply the workload instrument to classify the mother-child binomial in rooming-in that subsidizes the dimensioning of nursing professionals. This is an observational, descriptive and quantitative approach study, will be carried out in the accommodation sector of a University Hospital. The data collection instrument will be organized in three stages, in which the first is composed of seven care indicators, as follows: Delivery route; Maternal morbidity and complications; Neonatal morbidity and complications; Breastfeeding; Social Aggravators; Care education and guidance and Interaction and bonding, with scores from one to four, the second will be the sociodemographic, personal and obstetric data and the third will collect the data from the Safe Childbirth Checklist, present in the medical record, the search will be active on the set daily, every 24 hours, in the form of an interview. The information collected will be stored and processed in a computerized database using Microsoft Office Excel and Statistical Package for Social Sciences, version 20.0 software. The described treatment will be through the means and medians, a data analysis will be used or the chi-square test. It is noteworthy that this research will follow the ethical precepts in research with human beings in Resolution No. 466, of December 12, 2012 of the National Health Council upon its approval by the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Health Sciences of Traíri / Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte.