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Introduction: An infection control committee is an instance formed by trained professionals committed to patient safety.Objective: to describe the knowledge, attitudes and practices of the nursing staff regarding the functioning of the Infection Committee, as well as the management and leadership of the nursing representative.Methods: An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out at the Manuel Sanguinetti Regional Hospital, Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut (Argentina), in July 2020. The sample consisted of 131 nurses. To obtain data, a perception questionnaire on knowledge, attitudes and practices was applied.Results: 17.6% of professionals with staff in charge. The majority belong to the female gender (87%). The predominant age range was between 36 and 45 (42.7%), with the longest seniority in the hospital being between 5 and 10 years (35.9%). 90% consider that the ECI should establish a network with the hierarchical personnel and the rank and file. 82% respond positively on that the C.I. is integrated by a multidisciplinary group and its purpose is the prevention of hospital infections.Conclusions: Despite the overall knowledge that exists about nosocomial infections, ICs and the role of the nurse in infection control, deficiencies were detected in the knowledge regarding the involvement of the committee in training on the use of the epidemiological method and providing directives to the committee. There is no basis for the election of the nursing representative within the committee.

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Introduction: The Protocols of protection for hemato-oncological patient care are based on the adequacy of existing and scientifically validated scales.Objective: To describe the advances related to the implementation of protection protocols for the care of hemato-oncological patients from the point of view of Nursing Leadership in the services of the FUNDALEU Foundation.Methods: A non-experimental, observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in May 2020.Results: In terms of sociodemographic variables, the sample was represented mostly by women, aged between 38 and 45 years, graduates who have worked for more than 7 years in the service. Regarding the means recorded for different aspects of knowledge of protocols adapted for patients in the institution, it is worth noting that all of them were positive. It was found that for the three items (cytopenia, mental status and sensory deficit) the ANOVA test had statistical significance (p<0.001) between these groups. With the assessment of the fall risk protocol, the corresponding care can be planned and carried out (p < 0.001).Conclusions: there are no difficulties in terms of knowledge about the use of the care protocol for hemato-oncological patients. The nursing attitudes point out as difficulties that the items cytopenia, mental status and sensory deficit are not sufficient, so that sometimes the updates with respect to the fall risk protocol are not up to date.