It was aim to understand the perception of professionals and parents in relation to the planning and realization of the discharge of the newborn in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. It is an exploratory-descriptive research with qualitative approach which data collection was obtained through a semi-structured interview in 2011. The participants were eight health professionals and thirteen parents of newborn. For the analysis of the data it was used Content Analysis. The results indicate that the hospital discharge of newborns is focused in the reestablishment of physiological conditions; the care guidelines for newborn are passed to the parents by the nurse, in a fast way and it happens only in the discharge time. It was concluded that it is necessary the expansion of health education strategies in the discharge process, for parents of newborns, for the health team in your everyday work, for better planning and continuity of the care provided.
Patient discharge; Newborn; Health education; Nursing