ABSTRACT
Objective:
To report the experience of the construction of nursing dimensioning and its implications for the working process in a Family Health Unit (FHU).
Method:
Descriptive report, which used the recommendations of Resolution No. 543/2017 of the Federal Nursing Council to dimension the number of nursing professionals from a FHU with two teams in the interior of São Paulo.
Results:
The dimensioning evidenced the lack of the nurse and nursing assistant and brought implications for the work process, such as systematization of information about nursing staff absences, adequacy and monitoring of the information system and reorganization of the area of service coverage.
Conclusion and implications for practice:
It is important that nurses use management tools, such as dimensioning, to seek changes in the nursing and staff work and in the improvement of care offered. Staff dimensioning proved to be satisfactory for the adaptations in the work process.
Keywords:
Dimensioning of Personnel; Primary Health Care; Professional practice management; Nursing