Objective:

To determine the missed nursing care and the contributing factors in a hospital in Tabasco, Mexico.

Materials and methods:

Quantitative, descriptive and correlational study in 50 nurses from different shifts of a public hospital of the third level of care, the MISSCARE survey was used, descriptive statistics and the Spearman correlation coefficient were used for data analysis. considered what is stipulated in the Regulation of the General Health Law on Research for health.

Results:

The dimension that presented the most missed nursing care was basic care interventions (M= 22.6, SD= 14.2), followed by discharge planning and patient education (M= 21.2, SD= 15.4), care interventions with continuous evaluations resulted in the dimension with the least care lost (M= 9.6, SD= 7.9). The factors with the greatest contribution to the provision of lost nursing care were human resources (M= 75.8, SD= 18.3), followed by material resource factors (M= 68.2, SD= 21.1). The latter showed a negative and significant association with the interventions with continuous evaluations (rs= -0.318, p= 0.025).

Conclusions:

The greater presence of missed nursing care falls on basic care interventions, human resource factors are ranked first so that the omission or delay of care interventions occurs; however, only the material resource factors showed a significant negative relationship with the continuous assessment interventions.

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