Dora Lucía Gaviria Noreña

Time required for caring: an experience from the Nursing process

Know the nursing staff required for care, is one management challenges, since it must analyze progress scientists technological and discipline in the social, economic and political context in which people live, families and communities and the demands of social and health services. As Hurts expresses it,2 have been identified methods for calculating nursing staff as professional judgment by experts, the method of nurses per occupied bed, the analysis of the dependence of the degree of complexity of care and quality of activities, task-timed activity method and, finally, those based on regression analysis . The method proposed here is done following the Nursing Process PAE complemented by the actions that support care. Today the challenge is greater when it is declared to the nursing, by organism s such as the World Health Organization and the International Council of Nursing –ICNguarantor of the right to health and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals; is effective by providing quality care to people of all ages, and perform action ones of health promotion and disease prevention. WHO estimates that nurses and midwives account for almost half of all health workers worldwide. However, for all countries to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 3 on health and well-being, WHO estimates that by the year 2030 there will be an additional 9 million nurses and midwives around the world.3

Masters in Collective Health: pathway of challenges and possibilities

The masters program in Collective Health at Universidad de Antioquia reaches its 20 years. This fact constitutes a motive of satisfaction, recognition, and gratitude: to the directors at Universidad de Antioquia who have made it possible for this program to be maintained and have the parameters of a graduate program, sustainability, and evaluation established in the institution and in the national and international context; to the students and alumni who have opened the field of questions and have positioned relevant problems and new debates; and to the professors who in the most committed manner have contributed with their experiences, reflections, and knowledge acquired through research, formation, and outreach and with the best of their intellectual work.