Descriptive study targeting the validation of the instrument called "Registro Diário da Unidade" (Unit Daily Report) contents, which proposal is register information about patients' "flow" and profiles, human resources, procedures, left items and abnormal occurrences in each shift. The study has taken place in a School Hospital into the state of Sao Paulo. It has also been valuated by judges, specialists in this area with accordance higher than 70%. Than, has been used in every unit of this hospital during 30 days in June of 2007. After this, have been reanalyzed and reformulated. Conclusions: the instrument is validated by its contents for not representing judge's discordance. The next step is now to apply a new study to check its applicability.
Communication; Nursing; Forms and Records Control
