Nursing Audit: A reality that a professional in the field must face

Abstract

Nursing Audit (NA) would become a tool for the evaluation of the professional performance in Nursing, this audit is a fundamental requirement to understand the Nursing Care Process (NCP), besides that, it allows establishing evaluation criteria regarding the work performance of the service, whether it is a hospital, clinic or health center on which it depends. NA is the cornerstone for the professional practice of nurses, its principles and values guide decision-making and the relationship with patients. It becomes a valuable tool for managing the quality of care, which evaluates the facts with objectives that guarantee the degree of correspondence between the health system and the NCP