نبذة مختصرة : Objective: to analyze the strategies used by nurses for organization and planning in the centralization process of the Central Supply Sterile Department at a General Hospital. Method: this is a qualitative study of the history of the present time, carried out through an interview with 8 nursing professionals, such as nurses and nursing technicians at a hospital in the city of Petrópolis, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Data collection took place between September 2017 and August 2018. For analysis and interpretation of the documentary corpus, pertinence, sufficiency, completeness, representativeness, homogeneity and organization of documents in chronological order of the events during the investigated period were considered. The historical context was triangulated, with social structures and the symbolic universe resulting from interviews and documentary analysis. Thus, the categories of analysis emerged. Results: the strategies used by nurses occurred through organization and new work practices, enhancement of the Central Supply Sterile Department, hiring new nursing technicians, staff training and insertion of new technologies before, during and after centralization from the Central Supply Sterile Department. Conclusion: material sterilization at Hospital Santa Teresa continued with fractional nursing care among surgical patients and material processing. The strategies to centralize the sterilization unit contributed to a correct sterilization of hospital materials, resulting in expressive gains for nursing, Hospital Santa Teresa, society and control of Infections Related to Health Care.
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