Atuação do enfermeiro em laboratório de análises clínicas

The aim was to describe the duties of nurses working in a clinical analysis laboratory in Florianopolis, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. It is a qualitative, field, descriptive - exploratory study. The methodological design was carried out in 5 phases: phase 1: research authorization; phase 2: validation of the data collection instrument by specialists in the field; phase 3: delivery of the informed consent form to the research subjects, the target audience was nurses working in the clinical analysis laboratory sector; phase 4: data collection after application of the open questionnaire containing 19 questions; and phase 5: collecting the questionnaires and interpreting and analyzing the data. The study demonstrated that the nurse has assignments in the three distinct phases of the process, developing private assignments of the Nurse, both in the assistance part and in the managerial part. In addition, the importance of using instruments that support their practices for decision making was evidenced and the importance of the search for constant knowledge in this area that more and more the professional Nurse has been inserted.