Avalia？？o de cuidados na terapia intravenosa: desafio para a qualidade na enfermagem

multicenter, prospective, descriptive and exploratory study, conducted in public teaching hospitals (a and b), which aimed to evaluate five nursing quality indicators related to peripheral intravenous therapy. it was used the instrumento de registro de busca ativa in 1307 observations of the following indicators: identification and validity of the peripheral venous access; from equipments and from serum bottles. it was determined the positivity index (pi) for quality of care (qc): desirable (100% pi) adequate (90-99%), safe (80-89%), borderline (71-79%), low (< 70%). the qc is presented safe only for the indicators identification and validity of equipments and of serum bottles, from the institution b. the other indicators, at both institutions, reached low or borderline qc. considering that none of the indicators evaluated reached adequate qc, nor desirable, it was concluded that the process of care for intravenous therapy, especially at institution b, requires more attention from leaders and their teams.