The nurse and its daily actions in the practice of a material and sterilization center

The Material and Sterilization Center (MSC) is a technical support unit whose mission is to guarantee the processing of health products (PHP), with safety and quality in sufficient quantities to meet the needs of the service, as well as the safe attendance to the customer. patient.We aim to report the experience of nurses' daily actions in the practice of a MSC class II of a public hospital in the city of Fortaleza.It is an exploratory, descriptive, narrative research of the type of experience report, which has the purpose of describing the work developed by nurses in a MSC class II.The MSC where the internship practice was carried out has a team of 45 nursing technicians, the dimension being based on the size of the institution.This work made it possible to recognize the skills, abilities and attitudes of nurses in an MSC, given their daily actions in the areas of reception, cleaning, disinfection, preparation, sterilization, storage and distribution. It has been understood that all processing steps are very important and that one impacts the other positively or negatively. Therefore, the importance of the actions of supervision and continuous training of the nursing team in the face of PHP processing.The performance of this professional is increasingly relevant in the work processes of the MSC, mainly because of its role in the management of the processes, with a view to preventing infections related to health care (HAI), and thereby ensuring patient safety.