[Nursing role in prevention of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia: Spanish project "Neumonìa Zero"].

The incidence of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) varies between 8 and 28% on patients with invasive mechanical ventilation, and it is associated with high mortality rates. The international literature indicates that the VAP has some risk factors that cannot be changed and some other that are closely related to nursing care procedures. The aim of this study is to analyze compliance level to the protocol of nursing prevention of the VAP in the ICU of "General Hospital" in Castellon de la Plana (Spain) within the project "Neumonía Zero".

[Resource needs of nursing in the operating department].

Operating theatre is one of the most complex units. In this units there is a strong integration between the different figures of the staff; although that there is no analysis focused on the components that should play a role in the determination of the organic, especially of the nursing staff. First of all you have to choose the staff looking to the complexity of the surgery.