Examination of Nursing Dependency for Admission Fee and Measurement of Nurses' Work Load for Nursing Care

摘要

In April 2006, a system called seven-to-one nursing system was newly introduced in acute medicine which requires intense nursing care. In April 2008, a survey was conducted using "Assessment Sheet regarding Severity of Disease / Degree of Necessity of Nursing Care at General Wards", and obligation was established to fulfill certain requirements in medical institutions which collect the basic admission charge for the seven-to-one system. This survey is not a tool developed to investigate the amount of care required for patients but to measure the standard for the facility level. We report the findings from the comparisons of survey results for the amount of care provided to individual patients according to "The Classification of Degree of Nursing Care, Kagoshima University Edition".