[Damage liability of nursing professionals in the invasive procedures]

This study had as objective to apprehend the Social Representation of damage liability of nursing in the invasive procedures elaborated by the professionals of the area. It treats of a qualitaitve research, developed in a public hospital with 64 fellows. The data were produced from the free association words test, processed by software Tri-Deux Mots, being done Correspondence Factorial Analysis. The fellow's representational field indicated favorable attitudes in relation to the invasive procedures stimulus. The conceptions about hospital infection stimulus demonstrated a broad vision of hospital infection problem and its serious consequences. However it was not observed preoccupation and manifestation in the fellow's social representations about the civil responsibilities of Nursing professional.