[Difficulties experienced by nurses in the use of process indicators].

The research has investigated the difficulties that nurses from "Santa Casa" Hospital in Montes Claros-MG have had in using indicators to analyze the quality of care processes results. A transversal study of quantitative approach was carried out, with a questionnaire being applied to nurses who have obeyed the inclusion criteria. As a result, it was showed that 94,9% of the participants reported difficulties in using process indicators, considering that 50% of them got graduated less than three years ago and just 30% received information about the subject during the course. Among the difficulties, the rise of privative activities (61,5%), lack of theoretical and practical knowledge on the subject (46,2%), little knowledge about Process Management (43,6%), little involvement of the staff on the data collection (30,8%), among others. Thus, it was concluded how important it is the reflection on the nurse's privative activities inside the health facilities and readjustment of their work process, besides the insertion of the subject into nursing under graduation and graduation courses.