Elaboration of a nursing record standard for an Emergency Care Unit.

Objective: To develop a registration standard with diagnoses, outcomes and nursing interventions for an Emergency Care Unit.

Method: This is applied research of technological development developed in three steps: elaboration of diagnoses/outcomes and interventions statements following the International Classification for Nursing Practice; assessment of diagnosis/outcome relevance; organization of diagnosis/outcome and interventions statements according to health needs described in TIPESC.

Results: A total of 185 diagnoses were prepared, of which 124 (67%) were constant in the classification, and 61 had no correspondence.