Actuación de enfermería en el área de emergencias, selección, clasificación y etiquetado de pacientes.

Abstract

The triage helps us to classify, select the individual according to the health condition that the person maintains, acting the nursing staff as the main piece thanks to the cephalo-caudal assessment, always prioritizing the affectation of the patient. The number of emergencies in Ecuador during the period of January-December 2017 is 6'695,284 cases according to the page of the Ministry of Public Health (MSP). Using tools such as the Manual of Integral Health Care (MAIS), the priority levels managed within Ecuador were obtained, the work was based on the review of scientific articles, with the purpose of identifying how the care process of the nursing in emergencies and emergencies and it is through Virginia Henderson's theory of the 14 needs that one of the most frequent emergencies at a hospital level is given. The objective of the investigative work was to assess the needs of Virginia Henderson according to the hospital triage according to the urgency and emergency presented by patients. We become educators by classifying the patient according to their need, where the waiting time will be explained, depending on the demand of the patients in the ward. of triage and according to the classification of levels.