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Andréia Guerra Siman1, Luciene Muniz Braga1, Marilane de Oliveira Fani Amaro1
1Universidade Federal de Viçosa. Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Objective:
to understand the professional practice challenges in reaching the goals and objectives of the National Patient Safety Program (Programa Nacional de Segurança do Paciente).
Method:
qualitative case study, based on the Comprehensive Sociology, carried out with 31 professionals from the Patient Safety Center (Núcleo de Segurança do Paciente) and the nursing team, working in a teaching hospital. Data collection took place between May and December 2015 through interviews, observation and documentary analysis. The analysis proceeded according to the prerogatives of the Content Analysis.
Results:
three categories emerged: the prescribed reality; material resources and their impact on care; and human resources related to the reality.
Final Considerations:
challenges to safe professional practice are caused by inadequate physical structure, insufficient physical and human resources, but mainly invade the transition from the prescriptive reality scope.
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