title: [Nurse's effective participation in planning: focus on costs].
abstract: This research searched to verify if the nurses of a private hospital in São Paulo-SP, Brazil, have costs management view and to observe how occur their participation in the planning levels, specifically in relation to the costs. Forty nurses were interviewed during their journey through a questionnaire about caring costs management and the levels of organizational planning. It was observed that 85% of the nurses interviewed affirmed that they don't participate on the caring costs management, and that 45% of the participants didn't know to explain the importance of this knowledge. The majority of the nurses interviewed (62.5%) affirmed that they don't participate of the strategic institutional planning and, among those that participated; the majority didn't know to explain about their participation.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Nove de Julho, Curso de Graduação em Enfermagem (Graduanda). São Paulo-SP, Brasil. thais.albano@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Thais Cristina
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Albano
authors.forename: João Batista
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: de Freitas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil; D005260:Female; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006275:Health Facility Planning / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D024802:Nurse's Role; D055815:Young Adult