Table 4.

Mean nursing care index and proportion of babies with adequate nursing care delivered

	Mean (SD) nursing care index			Proportion of babies with adequate nursing care delivered (NCI≥80%)
	Overall	Nursing/clinical tasks	Documentation tasks	n/N (%)
Shift of observation
Weekday day	61.9 (57.4–66.3)	63.6 (59.4–67.9)	57.5 (49.9–65.2)	9/59 (15.3)
Weekday night	58.5 (53.6–63.4)	58.1 (52.4–63.9)	59.3 (54.4–64.2)	6/54 (11.1)
Weekend day	62.9 (58.1–67.7)	64.1 (58.9–69.4)	59.9 (53.9–65.9)	7/50 (14.0)
Weekend night	58.2 (52.9–63.5)	59.6 (54.0–65.3)	54.5 (48.2–60.7)	9/53 (17.0)
Neonatal care category
A (severe illness)	63.3 (58.8–67.8)	61.2 (56.3–66.0)	67.8 (62.4–73.2)	16/69 (23.2)
B (moderate severity)	60.0 (55.8–64.3)	61.6 (56.8–66.3)	55.6 (50.6–60.7)	12/75 (16.0)
C (stable)	57.9 (54.2–61.7)	61.5 (57.6–65.3)	50.4 (45.1–55.6)	3/72 (4.2)
Baby:nurse ratio
1–3 babies/nurse	72.9 (69.8–75.9)	73.7 (70.2–77.3)	71.3 (67.4–75.1)	27/84 (32.1)
4–11 babies/nurse	61.1 (57.3–64.9)	62.1 (58.1–66.1)	59.1 (52.8–65.3)	3/50 (6.0)
≥12 babies/nurse	47.0 (43.9–50.1)	48.4 (44.9–51.8)	43.0 (38.5–47.4)	1/81 (1.2)
Sector
Mission	64.8 (61.5–68.0)	65.2 (61.6–68.9)	64.0 (59.7–68.2)	9/72 (12.5)
Private	73.9 (71.2–76.6)	74.6 (71.2–78.0)	72.7 (69.8–75.7)	22/72 (30.6)
Public	42.4 (40.0–44.8)	44.4 (41.3–47.4)	36.6 (31.8–41.5)	0/72 (0.0)

NCI, nursing care index.