TY - SER TI - Planificación de un departamento de enfermería: metodología SN - 0210-5020 N1 - Este artículo se encuentra disponible en su edición impresa; Bibliografía: p. 52 N2 - Obviously, planning is making plans, related to an idea about what it means to manage. When translating these ideas-thinking level-to practice-operational level-, in the case of nursing, it is about finding a method that allows the optimal development and operation-even profitable-of Nursing, within the health system. Based on a specific case-planning of the Department of Nursing of the General Hospital of Valencia-, this work contributes its methodology to the small written file of similar experiences that Spain has ER -