Judicialization of nursing malpractice in perioperative care, and delivery and birth assistance.

Objectives: to analyze the legal outcomes of malpractices in perioperative care, and delivery and birth assistance related to nursing, from the perspective of legal support for malpractice prevention.

Methods: an exploratory, documentary, qualitative study, based on the cases tried by the Court of Justice of the State of Paraná, available online until April 2018. For the data analysis, we codified the processes and summarized the judicial outcome by the severity of the malpractice.

Perceptions of nursing professionals about the use of patient safety computerization.

Objective: Getting to know the perceptions of nursing professionals about the use of computerization in promoting patient safety.

Methods: Qualitative research performed at a hospital in the southern region of Brazil. Data collection was performed in November 2016, through a sociodemographic questionnaire and recorded interviews, guided by the question: "Tell me about the relationship between computerization and patient safety in this hospital".

Difficulties to implement patient safety strategies: perspectives of management nurses.

Objective: To understand the difficulties to implement patient safety strategies in the hospital environment from the perspective of nurse managers.

Methods: Descriptive, exploratory and qualitative study, carried out in four public university hospitals, using a semi-structured interview script, from January to March 2015. The sample was of 72 nurses.