Application of therapeutic intervention scoring system-28 to improve the scheduling model of emergency intensive care unit / 中国中西医结合急救杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate whether the nursing staff scheduling pattern of different shifts in Emergency Intensive Care Unit (EICU) of a third-grade first-class hospital in Guizhou Province could be rationally arranged by using the therapeutic intervention scoring system-28 (TISS-28). Methods The nursing workload of 129 patients in EICU was evaluated by TISS-28 from March to June 2017 in the Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University to look for the best nursing staff scheduling pattern. Results The TISS-28 was used to predict the workload of nurses on night shift and day shift. The TISS-28 scores of day shift and night shift were similar, and they were respectively 38.75±5.01 and 38.66±5.04 scores. There was no statistical significant difference in predicting the nurse-patient ratio between day shift and night shift by using TISS-28 (10.83±0.22 vs. 10.83±0.24, P > 0.05). The number of nursing staff was adjusted from originally 9 nurses during day shift and 5 nurses during night shift to 7 nurses during day shift and 7 nurses during night shift. Conclusions According to TISS-28 score to arrange the numbers of nurses on night shift and day shift is reasonable, the nurse workload of night shift can be reduced and their working enthusiasm improved, thus the degrees of satisfaction of nurses and patients are getting higher.