Percepción del personal de enfermería en relación a los criterios de ingreso a UCI

Abstract

Introduction: The perception of a person requiring ICU, by nursing staff, is based on an early detection of deterioration or failure of a system, in addition to defining parameters necessary to identify serious diseases in hospitals including clear discriminatory values to trigger a timely resuscitation action. Objective: to know the perception of the nursing staff of the Ambato General Hospital working in the intensive care area on the criteria for admission of patients to the ICU. Material and methods: Qualitative study, with a narrative, descriptive and comprehensive approach to understand the phenomenon and the cause, from the knowledge, skills and perceptions of the experiences of each participant; a purposive sampling was used by means of a recorded interview with the nursing staff working in the ICU of the Hospital General Ambato. Results: The total number of interviewees have an adequate perception of the criteria and prioritization of admission of critical patients to the ICUs. Conclusions: The perception of the personnel. Conclusions: The perception of the nursing staff in the Intensive Care Unit of the Ambato General Hospital, aims to improve the admission of patients at the time of admission, due to the fact that it allows the health personnel to interact between their knowledge and the environment of the person in critical condition.