Upon analysing the practice of what professionals have been doing, we have come to inquire ourselves if the nursing prescription has really been coordinating the nursing practices by attending personel. With the principal objective of knowing and confronting the opinion of the nurses and attending personal concerning the contents of the nursing prescription, we've had 6 nurses, 19 attendants and 1 attending person answer a questionary. As a disagreement, about 80% of the attending personal didn't mention the necessity of prescribing the hygiene items to be practiced, while 67% of the nurses indicated such a necessity. As one of the agreements, 67% of the nurses and 85% of the attending personal did not mention the necessity to prescribe orotraqueal aspiration to be practiced. Changes in the contenst on nursing prescription are suggested