[Surgical field. Polyvalent or specialized nursing: job satisfaction and quality of care].
This article focuses on study about nursing staff working satisfaction in a Surgical Ward as well as determining the difference, if this difference exists, in the degree of staff satisfaction among those whose work is performed as a specialist or a polyvalent nurse. A specialist is defined as a person who carries out his/her professional duties in the same surgical ward over two years or more; a polyvalent nurse is defined as one who changes their specialty according to the period established by their hospital or according to the needs at any given moment.
García Zaldívar
María Lourdes
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Area Bloque Quirúrgico y U.C.S.I. Hospital de l'Esperança, IMAS, Barcelona.
Caralps Masramon
Matilde
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D013502:General Surgery; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013041:Specialties, Nursing