[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.
Area Bloque Quirúrgico y U.C.S.I. Hospital de l'Esperança, IMAS, Barcelona.
María Lourdes
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García Zaldívar
Matilde
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Caralps Masramon
D013502:General Surgery; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013041:Specialties, Nursing