Time required for caring: an experience from the Nursing process

Abstract

Know the nursing staff required for care, is one management challenges, since it must analyze progress scientists technological and discipline in the social, economic and political context in which people live, families and communities and the demands of social and health services. As Hurts expresses it,2 have been identified methods for calculating nursing staff as professional judgment by experts, the method of nurses per occupied bed, the analysis of the dependence of the degree of complexity of care and quality of activities, task-timed activity method and, finally, those based on regression analysis . The method proposed here is done following the Nursing Process PAE complemented by the actions that support care. Today the challenge is greater when it is declared to the nursing, by organism s such as the World Health Organization and the International Council of Nursing –ICNguarantor of the right to health and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals; is effective by providing quality care to people of all ages, and perform action ones of health promotion and disease prevention. WHO estimates that nurses and midwives account for almost half of all health workers worldwide. However, for all countries to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 3 on health and well-being, WHO estimates that by the year 2030 there will be an additional 9 million nurses and midwives around the world.3