Current status of extracorporeal membrane oxygen patient care workload / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To investigate the workload of extracorporeal membrane oxygen(ECMO) patients, estimate the number of hours of care based on the amount of nursing work, and to analyze the status of human resources, improve the quality of care and the effect of nursing.Methods:The Nursing Activity Assessment Scale was used to evaluate the daily workload of ECMO patients in the Intensive Care Unit of Zhejiang Province People′s Hospital, and the relevant factors affecting the workload were analyzed.Results:The average daily workload of ECMO patients was (76.06 ± 7.23) points, the daily nurse care ECMO patients time was 10.31 h, and the number of ideal nurses who needed to participate directly in the daily patients was 2.28. The workload was related to age, whether heparin and vasoactive drugs were used, and prognosis( t values were -3.184-7.291, P<0.05 or 0.01). Conclusions:The workload of ECMO patients is relatively large. At this stage, the ratio of nurse to patient is reasonable in our hospital. The patients′ age, use the heparin, vasoactive drugs and prognosis affect the level of nursing workload of ECMO patients.