This study used critical analysis to discuss the implementation of quality control systems in health care settings and their implications for hospital nursing practice. This analysis points out the importance of political participation of nurses in influencing the ways, strategies, and actions used to implement quality control systems. In addition, this analysis emphasizes that optimal implementation of any program aimed to improve quality of services emerge from an institutional political principles, which guarantee everybody equal opportunities, conditions, and rights of participation in the implementation and continuation of a program. Furthermore, implementation of quality control programs relies on implicit and explicit human qualities of the people who perform their duties by acting, interacting, and reacting to the institutional environment or context.
Hospitals; Quality; Nursing; Quality of health care