This paper relates a description about nursing notes in pactients promptuaries in relationto thedistribuition/reproduction/production process of knowledge in nursing. It was developed on an Intensive Care Unity from a Hospital in the teaching/ assistance Sanitary District Barra/Rio Vermelho (Salvador-Bahia). The basic premise isthat the nursing personal work superficial and sporadic notes just related to patients. Distribuition/ reproduction/production process, that happen in the nursing work process isn't considered by it devaluation or just because, for nursing agents, only information about techinical procedures related to patient care, expresses the nursing knowledge and so, must be registered. In order to reach the objective, 30% of the promptuaries of patients discharge from the ICU were studied and the nursing team was interviewed, during the months november, december 1994. The analysis indicates that the way how the nursing notes are been made, results in hard comunication among agents of health area and contributes to disqualify the nursing assistance that is given to patients, besides to limite the advance of thedistribuition/reproduction/production of knowledge in nursing.
Nursing records; Awareness; Nursing team; Intensive Care Units