NURSE CONCEPTION OF HOSPITAL COST MANAGEMENT
Abstract
This study is about the knowledge that the nurse has about of hospital cost management. Its aim is to identify the nurse’s role in hospital cost management and their conception of this process; verify the trends in nurse’s actions in this management; and identify the facilities found by nurses in the cost control implementation. Study of qualitative approach; it used the questionnaire as a tool for data collection. The participants are nurses at the University Hospital Antonio Pedro (Niterói/RJ). Content analysis method with themes categorization was used. It concluded that the nurse’s conception of hospital cost management is very restricted and unstructured. As nurses improve and understand the cost control process, their actions in the management of this process, will raise the level and quality of care.
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