To analyze the gaps between the allocation of nursing human resources and the workload of emergency department and intensive care unit in Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University in Shanghai in the past five years, so as to provide basis for the formulation of optimal countermeasures for the allocation of nursing human resources.

Based on the data from January 2016 to December 2020, a retrospective study was used to analyze the trend and correlation between the allocation of nursing human resources (educational background, professional title and years of work experience) and the workload of emergency department and intensive care unit(emergency rescue, 120 vehicle pick-up, triage of level-1 patient, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, central venous catheter intubation, organ transplantation, blood purification and endotracheal intubation). So as to explore the change trend of human resources and the workload of emergency department and intensive care unit in the past five years.

By the end of 2020, the proportion of the nurses with bachelor′s or master′s degree had reached 61.44% and the proportion of nurses with professional titles of nurse in charge and above reached 73.85% in emergency department. The structure of working years was relatively stable, and there was no obvious change trend. At the same time, the proportion of the nurses with bachelor′s or master′s degree has reached 57.62% and the proportion of nurses with professional titles of nurse in charge and above reached 63.42% in intensive care unit. The number of nurses who had worked for more than 5 years had shown an upward trend. However, the proportion of nurses with master′s degree or above was still small both in emergency department and intensive care unit. The workload of acute and critical care for nurses was increasing year by year. The average annual growth rates of nursing workload for triage of level-1 patient, blood purification, organ transplantation, central venous catheter intubation and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation were 8.94%, 9.06%, 11.07%, 18.50% and 28.32% respectively.

The allocation of nursing human resources for emergency department and intensive care unit in Zhongshan hospital is changing towards personnel quality improvement and structure optimization, but there is still a shortage of high-level nursing personnel. And the workload of nurses in relevant departments is increasing year by year. Hospitals should actively explore the innovative way for the reform of the allocation of nursing human resource to ensure the balanced development of "quantity" and "quality" of nursing human resources for emergency department and intensive care unit.

Trend analysis; Critical care nursing; Health workforce