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.

[Assessment of user embracement with risk rating in emergency hospital services].

Cross-sectional and quantitative study, conducted in 2013, aiming to evaluate the implementation of User Embracement with Risk Rating (ACCR) in four Emergency Hospital Services. One hundred fifty six nurses participated and answered the questionnaire"User Embracement with Risk Rating". The data were treated through descriptive and inferential statistics, from the Kruskal-Wallis test.