NURSING ACTIVITIES SCORE (NAS): SHARING OUR

EXPERIENCES

Lilia de Souza Nogueira

School of Nursing, University of São Paulo, Brazil

NAS IN BRAZIL

Brazil: 192 million people (2010)

North

Northeast

Southeast

South

Nursing Activities Score:

Adapted and validated to Portuguese language in 2002

In-use at the University Hospital since 2005

Software created in 2009 (registered in 2011)

NAS IN BRAZIL

PUBLICATIONS IN BRAZIL

66.7% of these studies are available in Portuguese,

English and Spanish

Year

Num

ber

of a

rtic

les

Distribution of number of articles (n=24), according to the

publication year. Brazil, 2003 – 2010.

1

3

65

6

3

0 00

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

OUR EXPERIENCES

Retrospective and daily data collection without

modifications to the instrument.

Manuals are used in many hospitals to standardize

data collection.

The results are used to analyse the sizing of the

nursing staff.

NAS is being applied in other units, such as

gastroenterology, neonatal and high dependency

units.

DIFFICULTIES

Obtaining some information due to lack of nursing

activities records;

No common language between nurses (lack of

manuals and ongoing training);

In collecting data with shifts of 6 or 12 hours.

THE FUTURE

Creation of a National Database;

Elaboration of National and International multicenter

studies;

Development of studies utilizing the NAS as an

independent variable.

BRAZIL

lilianogueira@usp.br