This paper presents the computerized nursing prescription as a communication instrument able to promote changes in nurs ing multiprofessional and intra-team relationships and professional nursing "savoir-faire" socialization. It can become a strategy of reapproximation of nurses and patients/clients, through problems assessment and priorization, elaboration and selection of protocols that will be part of nursing prescription, assuring to patients a planned and adequated care, conducting to modifications in the practice, with repercussions in the forms of managing care and also in the care provided to patients/clients.
computerized nursing prescription; instrument of communication; nursing "savoir-faire" socialization