The nurse in the management of materials in teaching hospitals

Abstract

Objective: To present the nurse's integration within materials management of six teaching hospitals of Paraná -Brazil, and to describe the activities performed by nurses within this process. Method: A study of a qualitative approach and descriptive nature, conducted in teaching hospitals in Paraná, between June and August of 2013. The data collection was conducted through semi-structured interviews with eight nurses who worked in materials management; data were analyzed using content analysis. Results: These showed that nurses perform ten categories of activities, distributed into four of the five steps of the materials management process. Conclusion: The nurse, in performing of these activities, in addition to favoring the development of participative management, contributes to the organization, planning, and the standardization of the hospital supply process, giving greater credibility to the work with professionals who use the materials, and to the suppliers.

The Client Capital in Nursing Management in Hospitals

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“…37,38 In the context of the public service, in which bidding and electronic trading are the means used for the acquisition of consumable and permanent materials, nursing practice occurs in determining the type of material to be purchased for the service units, standardization and technical specification, control of quality of materials and technical advice that contribute to organizational decision-making regarding the adoption or discontinuation of the acquisition of certain materials and equipment and the qualification of suppliers. 36 In this sense, the integration of nursing with suppliers that are part of the service relations network occurs more directly with outsourced service providers, maintenance services and during the evaluation of consumables or permanent resources. Thus, it is understood that the role of the supplier to deliver the resources rationally, efficient and necessary services for safe and quality care in the hospital, depends on the nursing work which provides information, descriptions and evaluations of client needs and service, in a process of effective interaction.…”

Atribuições e competências de gerentes de enfermagem: pesquisa descritiva exploratória

“…Material resource management has also been identified as an assignment of nursing managers as they participate in almost every step of the material management process -programming, purchase, receipt, storage, distribution, and control -and this is due to their capacity for administrative activities, combined with the knowledge derived from care activities (12) . It has an impact on the quality of care provided to the user.…”

Management of ophthalmic surgical instruments and processes optimization: mixed method study

“…The challenges of hospital institutions increase continuously to improve the quality of services offered to society (1)(2) . In this context, the Central Sterile Services Department (CSSD) is responsible for processing health materials and products, contemplating actions that start immediately before and after the direct assistance, which directly affects the safe or unsafe care to the patient, an elementary dimension in health quality (3) .…”

“…In face of the complexity of the surgical work, as well as inputs involving it, it is known that the nurse, in this context, plays essential role in the management, both of human resources and physical and environment resources (1) . This complex task contemplates construction, organization, planning and systematization of processes that not only involve the nursing work, but also interferes with surgical care (9) .…”