OBJECTIVE: To deal about reconstruction of the instrument for classification of neonates proposed for Toledo and Fugulin in 2000. METHODS: It was considered 16 caring areas and the neonate classified in three levels of the nursing care complexity. For the content validation was utilized the Delphi technique. A team of fivs experts nursing professionals of neonate, obstetric and pediatric area whom attends patients or teaches in the Medical School. RESULTS: The obtained results have showed the experts agreement concerned to: the maintenance of the 16 caring area, property and intelligibility of the area contents and presence of an increasing level in the nursing care complexity.
Infant; Neonatal nursing; Pediatric nursing
