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01.08.2004 | Correspondence
The ICNSS: incorporating family care into nursing workload assessment
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DaiWai Olson
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Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 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. …