Author(s)

Kamyla Lameira Vieira¹, Janete de Souza Urbanetto², Ana Elizabeth Figueiredo^1,2

¹Post Graduation Program in Medicine and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
²School of Nursing, Nutrition and Physiotherapy, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

The study aimed to look for available evidence in the literature regarding tools and methods used for determining nurse staffing levels. It is an integrative literature review whose data search was performed electronically between September and October 2013. The integrative review consisted of 13 articles that responded to the inclusion criteria proposed in the study. Several tools and methods were identified that determine staffing numbers, however, implementation of the calculated required workforce is not yet effective in the institutions surveyed.

Downsizing Staff, Workload, Nursing

Lameira Vieira, K. , Urbanetto, J. and Figueiredo, A. (2015) Methods Used for Determining Nurse Downsizing: An Integrative Review. Open Journal of Nursing, 5, 129-135. doi: 10.4236/ojn.2015.52015.