Indicator number of patients per nurse as a health policy; for the quality of care in a tertiary care hospital.

Abstract

The World Health Organization establishes that a health system encompasses any activity that is aimed at promoting, restoring, and maintaining health, and that are found at the level of social organization and are formed in response to the need to respond to problems and needs. of health and disease based on the economic and political structure of each society. The present work aims to demonstrate the real rate of patients per nurse through participatory action research; it was carried out in an internal medicine service of a tertiary care hospital, for caring for patients with chronic degenerative pathology, unstable, serious, and critical patients.