| Summary: | <font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black">High rates of infection can reflect the quality of the service. Two previous studies in the same place </span><span style="color: black">reported an overall surgical </span><span style="color: black">site</span><span style="color: black"> infection incidence of</span><span style="color: black"> 14,1% and 22%, what motivated this research. </span></font></font><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"><span> </span></span></strong><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black">The aim of this study was to </span><span>analyze</span><span style="color: black"> the structure and nursing process<strong> </strong>and its possible relationship with the prevention and control of surgical </span><span style="color: black">site</span><span style="color: black"> infection (SSI). </span><span style="color: #111111">It is</span><span style="color: black"> a descriptive, observational and documentary analysis study</span><span style="color: #111111"> performed in a large </span><span style="color: #111111">general</span><span style="color: #111111"> teaching </span><span style="color: #111111">Hospital</span><span style="color: #111111"> in </span><span style="color: #111111">São</span><span style="color: #111111"> Paulo</span><span style="color: black"> from August 2007 to March 2008</span><span style="color: #111111">.</span><span style="color: black"> The </span><span style="color: black">data</span><span style="color: black"> were collected from institutional documents and trough directed observation of the nursing practice</span><span style="color: black">. </span><span style="color: black">The results showed that the normative documents </span><span style="color: black">are</span><span style="color: black"> in accord with the current evidence. However, the structure issues present limitations with negative impact for the prevention of SSI. The nursing processes accomplished partially to the recommended </span><span style="color: black">standards</span><span style="color: black">, the hand washing, appropriate use of antibiotics and accomplishment of postoperative dressing’s present improvement opportunities that could positively impact the surgical </span><span style="color: black">site</span><span style="color: black"> infection’s rates. These results point out the need of review the nursing process and the adequacy of some structural issues in order to achieve the </span><span style="color: black">standards</span><span style="color: black"> for prevention and control of the surgical </span><span style="color: black">site</span><span style="color: black"> infection.</span></font></font>
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