Standard operating procedure: use in nursing care in hospital services Procedimiento operacional estándar: utilización en la asistencia de enfermería en servicios hospitalarios Procedimento operacional padrão: utilização na assistência de enfermagem em serviços hospitalares

• Main Authors: Giselle Patrícia Guerrero (Author), Lúcia Marinilza Beccaria (Author), Maria Auxiliadora Trevizan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo, 2008-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This is a descriptive and quantitative study, carried out in three hospitals in the Northwest of São Paulo, Brazil. It aimed to verify the existence and use of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) by nursing teams. SOPs describe each critical and sequential step of a task to ensure its expected resu...