2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Establishment of staff management systems

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21890214
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Fundamental nursing
Research Institution	Yamanashi Prefectural University
Principal Investigator	MASHIMO Ayako Yamanashi Prefectural University, 看護学部, 講師 (80551639)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	人員配置 / マネジメント / DPC / 看護必要度
Research Abstract	In Finland, which was the first country to implement staffing systems, the RAFAELA system has been adopted. A staffing system consisting of the following three components has been established : an original patient classification method, a method for calculating the number of nurses, and optimal nursing workload values as subjectively measured by nurses. Domestic issues included improvement of the accuracy of scale of nursing needs and reassessment of workload due to increased indirect care. In addition, when establishing the concept of staffing system models at acute care hospitals, trends in mean scores for nursing needs' point A and B and nursing care intensity points for each day of the week were confirmed for one month for each ward characteristic. Although determination of optimal levels that transcend departments is a future issue, DPC codes may enable elucidation of the patterns of nursing needs and establishment of staffing systems capable of making predictions.

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