This study has as objectives, analyze the scientific and technical publications about the standard procedures of precautions in national and international newspapers and to highlight important aspects of articles about the nurse's paper in the prevention and control of hospital infection. It constituted as sample of the research the secondary sources in form of books and newspaper, with the purpose of putting us in direct contact with articles raised about the use of the precautions standard for the hospital infections in the nursing care, between 1999 and 2005. 10 articles related to the use of standard precautions had been found: 70% had been gotten in Bank of Teses, 20% in the site Scielo and 10% in the library of a public university of Rio de Janeiro, being 40% published in the year of 2003. The results showed that, in this period, in spite of few publications, there was a continuous renewal of the theme, such as national level, as international.
Nursing; Cross Infection; Universal Precautions