Nurses’ knowledge about systematization of nursing assistance

Objective: to evaluate the nurses’ knowledge about the systematization of nursing assistance. Method: this is about a descriptive cross-sectional study, from quantitative approach. No probabilistic sample of 18 nurses who worked in hospital answered a semi-structured questionnaire with 10 questions about the knowledge the SNA. Accuracy and errors were computed. Descriptive analysis was performed. Research approved by the Ethics Committee of Anhanguera Educacional number 196/2009. Results: the most know the meaning of the abbreviation SNA, the number of stages the nursing process but don't know what the satges of the nursing process. They able to answer the types of diagnostic existing, knew that the law of COFEN establishes the implementation in all health institutions public and private, didn't know the proper definition of nursing diagnosis and claim to use a theory to support the nursing care. Showed the advantage the possibility of a holistic assessment of the patient and the disadvantage of lack time to perform the SNA. Conclusion: the knowledge is undoubtedly of great importance for the nurses, accordingly, this research showed some weakness about the knowlegde of systematization of nursing assistance and is necessary to learny to apply in pratice.