Study of variables of nursing personnel planning in hospitals of Porto Alegre

Abstract

The study intends to discuss the reality of nursing personnel planning, trying to describe the qualitative and quantitative variables that are involved in this process in hospital of Porto Alegre city. In spite of numberless variables found, we can verify a great diversity between the criterious accepted by the nursing chief`s and the inexistence of official criterious. The data analisys allowed grouping the variables in four main categories: hospital, nursing service, unit and clientele. To exist best utilization the quantitative variables related unit and clientele categories and restriction of autonomy nursing service to decide about this theme.