Enfermería intensiva
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Enfermería intensiva · Jul 2002
[Utilization of the nine equivalents of nursing manpower use score (NEMS) in a pediatric intensive care unit].
In 1994, sponsored by the European Communities Commission and the FRICE (Foundation for Research on Intensive Care in Europe), the EURICUS proyect was born, which, among other objectives, sets out to know objectively the work loads of the nursing staff in the intensive medicine services. As a consequence, the FRICE developed and validated a new therapeutic index, the nine equivalents of nursing manpower use score, NEMS. This scale (NEMS) can determine the therapeutic effort required by critically ill patients in a simple way and only using nine therapeutic variables. ⋯ In a pediatric ICU, the age of the patient who is hospitalized influences the requirements of the nursing staff. Depending on at what time the scale is measured, not all the nursing activity is reflected, due to the high number of daily admissions and discharges. The NEMS scale is simple to use and reflects the therapeutic effort of the patients admitted to a PICU; however it only measures those cares delegated from therapeutic intervention and does not reflect the basic nursing cares.