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Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 8/2004

01-08-2004 | Correspondence

The ICNSS: incorporating family care into nursing workload assessment

Author: DaiWai Olson

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 8/2004

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Sir: I read the report on validating the Intensive Care Nursing Scoring System (ICNSS) by Pyykko et al. [1] with a great deal of interest. Certainly a tool that could be used to quantify nursing workload would contribute greatly to the evaluation of clinical outcomes as well as measures designed to improve clinical outcomes. Assigning a measurable value to nursing workload is complicated by the diverse skills and tasks required by the nurse. The intensive care unit (ICU) nurse must be adept at multitasking. …
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Pyykko AK, Ala-Kokko TI, Laurila JJ, Miettunen J, Finnberg M, Hentinen M (2004) Validation of the new Intensive Care Nursing Scoring System (ICNSS). Intensive Care Med 30:254–259CrossRefPubMed
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Miranda DR, de Rijk A, Schaufeli W (1996) Simplified Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System: the TISS-28 items-results from a multicenter study. Crit Care Med 24:64–73PubMed
Metadata
Title
The ICNSS: incorporating family care into nursing workload assessment
Author
DaiWai Olson
Publication date
01-08-2004
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 8/2004
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-004-2331-4

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