[Social-health operator: survey on the knowledges of nurses about this operator]

The nurse is a full member of the multidisciplinary equipe and he is taken on the responsibility for operational correctness in the first person, acting am individually that in with the others sanitary operating collaboration and social and using, where necessary, of the support personnel, but when are cognizant of the responsibility from the attribution of an activity to a figure of support? Purpose of the search's that to understand that knowledge type had the nurses in worth to the figure of the operative sanitary partner and of the activity that compete him, and if were cognizant of the real responsibility on the attribution of the activity to this figures; besides the investigation contemplated to investigate if this knowledge/awareness they were influenced from the diverged working reality or from the share to courses of updating/formation. The approach has stated systematic, it has been considered a population composed by the nurses of three Italian hospitals. The surveys have stated effected across anonymous self-compiled questionnaires. From the results it is emersed that play a determinate role in the knowledge of the subject the frequented have updating courses and work in a working reality when this figure of support is present.