Bundles for the central sterile supply department.

Background: Traditional resources, such as bundles, can help experts define essential steps of health product processing to prevent infections. The present study developed bundle content construction and validation criteria for central sterile supply departments (CSSDs).

Methods: The present study employed a Delphi technique modified for content evaluation.

[Punitive written warnings issued by nursing services managers].

This survey aims at analyzing the reasons that generated punitive written warnings from a university hospital of Nursing Services in the period 2001 to 2006 involving different managers. This is an exploratory and descriptive study with quantitative approach. The data were categorized into 4 distinct groups, those being: errors of medicines, disciplinary problems, ethical and technical failures.

Errors committed by nursing technicians and assistants in administering antibiotics.

Background: Success in any antibiotic treatment depends on many factors, including the associated preparation procedures and the nursing care management.

Objective: The aim of this research was to analyze errors in nursing procedures in the use of cefepime.

Methods: A survey was performed in the adult patients' wing of a university hospital in Brazil, and a direct observation technique was used to process variation errors.