[Nursing activities with patients coming into an emergency room]

Nursing participation in patients attending to the emergency ward at the Teaching South Infantile Hospital, Santiago de Cuba, was analyzed and evaluated during November 1987. It was observed that the performance of main nursing procedures was adequate. Having a wide participation in patients with neurologic, febrile, respiratory and digestive disorders, and in those polytraumatized patients. Teaching activities in which are involved almost everybody attending to the emergency ward, were wholly fulfilled, according to plans.