Strategies used in practice in emergency nursing: implications ethical and professional

Objectives: to identify the strategies used by members of the nursing staff in the emergency room and analyze the ethical and professional implications of these strategies, as everyday practices that drive. Method: this is about an qualitative study, conducted in the emergency room of University Hospital Antonio Pedro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, approved by the Ethics Committee under n. 0155-07. It was used as a tool for data collection, participant observation, according to the precepts of Resolution 196/96. Results: the working process of the nursing staff of the Emergency Hospital Universitário Ant nio Pedro is strongly characterized by improvisation and fragmentation. Thus, the nursing intervention is subject to adjustments in the way of doing, here understood as strategies. The use of strategies in the action has ethical and professional implications involving the provision of safe handling and quality and application of scientifically proven techniques. Conclusion: the practice observed in the nurses' performance is still not systematic in experiments without evaluating the consequences, which are not even perceived as such by staff of the work, making them unaware of the ethical and professional.