Norton Perez-Gutierrez and
Abstract
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.