Factors Affecting Intensive Care Units Nursing Workload

• DOI: 10.5812/ircmj.20072
• Publication Date: 2014-08-02T06:44:05Z
• Authors: Mohammad Karim Ba...; Ramin Ravangard; Mehdi Raadabadi; Seyed Masod Mosavi; Mohammad Gholami ...; Fardin Mehrabian
• Keywords: Exploratory factor analysis; Validity

The nursing workload has a close and strong association with the quality of services provided for patients. Therefore, paying careful attention to factors affecting workload, especially those working in intensive care units (ICUs), is very important.This study aimed determine ICUs hospitals affiliated Tehran University Medical Sciences.This was cross-sectional analytical-descriptive that done Iran. All nurses (n = 400) who Sciences 2014 were selected studied using census method. required data collected researcher-made questionnaire which its validity reliability confirmed through getting opinions experts composite internal consistency (α 0.89). analyzed exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory (CFA) SPSS 18.0 AMOS 18.0.Twenty-five divided into three major categories EFA, including structure, process, activity. following among process activity components had greatest importance: lack clear responsibilities authorities performing unnecessary tasks (by coefficient 0.709), mismatch between capacity wards number patients 0.639), helping students newly employed staff 0.589).The influenced by many factors. nurses, patients' admission according wards, use new technologies equipment, providing basic training can decrease nurses.