[Concept analysis: Nurse demand management]

Nurse demand management (NDM) is an emerging concept that requires some useful clarification, not only for professionals and users but also for managers. The NDM was born in 2009 after the need to reorganize the flow of demand, but it has become more than this. NDM is understood as a program led by the primary care nurse to take care of people with acute minor illnesses. Nurses, under a consensual protocol and within their competence area, can be autonomous in patient care and in the resolution of acute minor illnesses. Therefore, following Primary Care's philosophy, both the doctor and the nurse are the professionals that will follow up the health-disease process throughout the user's life. This article was written according to the methodology described by Wilson.