[Dimensioning nursing staff: analysis of the nurse's work at the pediatric ICU of HU-USP].

The purposes of this study were to evaluate effective time of the nurse's work during the morning shift at the Pediatric ICU of HU-USP, to identify percentage of effective time of work of these nurses dedicated to direct and indirect assistance and to determine the index of productivity of the professionals doing a retrospective analysis of daily activities records. The mean of the effective time a month of these nurses' work corresponded to 275.5 minutes, of which 49.9% were related to indirect and 50.1% to direct assistance. According to the evaluation criterion available in the literature, the productivity index found is between satisfactory and excellent.