Implementación de normas, protocolos y procedimientos de enfermería en la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Pediátricos del Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga, Cuenca 2014-2015”

Abstract

The pediatric intensive care unit is part of the service of Pediatrics of the Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga which was inaugurated in the month of April of the year 2013, in order to provide comprehensive care to the child in critical condition, to be the beneficiaries the children of affiliates from the 30 days of born to the 14 years 11 months 29 days where nurses play an important role in the care, stabilization, treatment and recovery of the child. Nurses working in the unit is young, inexperienced in handling and attention to the child in critical condition, and since the unit is new does not possess any instructional orientation of work and attention to the child, both for current and new staff that it incorporates. For this reason, the proposal is presented for the implementation of standards, protocols, and procedures of nursing in the pediatric intensive care unit, in order to provide proper assistance to the child in critical condition, thus, ensuring that care is optimal and efficient.