Journal of Perioperative & Critical Intensive Care Nursing
Open Access

Abstract

Human Resources Shortness in Intensive Care: A Need for a Public Policy

Norton Perez-Gutierrez and Emma Isabel Rodriguez-Darabos

Critical care patients are severely ill and have a potentially deadly condition that requires a special care. Advanced health technology is required, but well trained staff is specially needed to provide acute care with higher intensity than a patient in a general ward. Nevertheless, human resources are lacking, hard to get and to retain and desertion rate is high with low periods of permanence. This requires institutional, national and public strategies to improve stability of ICU staff in order to advance in teamwork and clinical outcome.