This article describes the categorization of the elements identified from the nursing check-up in ambulatory occupational health. This is a retrospective descriptive study that was conducted in the Nursing Ambulatory Center at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. The data sources were the nursing records used in outpatient unit and from the records of the institution's database, collected from August 1998 to August 2003. Of the106 patient records used, 777 records were identified as first-time encounter and nursing return appointments. The initial results of this study suggest that the demographic elements of the patient/client, nursing care elements, service elements, and occupational health elements comprise a nursing essential data set in the area of occupational health.
Occupational health nursing; Nursing records; Information Systems; Nursing Informatics
