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Objective: to understand the perspective of nurses on the transitional care of the person with chronic noncommunicable disease from hospital to home. Method: qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study. The study scenario was a University Hospital in southern Brazil. Data collection occurred through semi-structured interviews with 28 nurses and managers, between July 2018 to May 2019, in which the analyses were made by the themes. Results: The nurses point out some strategies of transition of the care, as the inclusion of the caregiver in the orientations and the telephone contact. They also indicate the need for recognition of the health network by professionals and the challenge of articulation between different services. Final considerations: the transitional care goes beyond the reductionist logic of simple individualized orientation to hospital discharge. The nurse can lead the change and promote the consolidation of safe and qualified practices, due to its insertion in the various scenarios of health care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Theoretical framework: Over the years there has been substantial change in the amount of nursing documentation arising from the daily use of information technologies by health professionals. Physicians are the greatest consumers of the information collected, processed and documented by nurses, given the relevance of this information to the clinical decision-making process. Objective: To identify and describe the information collected, processed and documented by nurses which is considered to be the most relevant for the medical profession. Methodology: A qualitative exploratory study using participant observation (98 hours) and semi-structured interviews (3) with key-informants, conducted in a hospital setting. Inductive content analysis of field notes and interviews was performed. Results: For physicians, the most relevant information depends on the context of the subject, the action and the professions, and was gathered into three categories: “monitoring parameters”; “medication and therapeutic attitudes”; and “intercurrent data”. Conclusion: Data collection strategies produced valid data to identify the most relevant information categories for physicians (“monitoring parameters”, “medication and therapeutic attitudes” and “intercurrent data”). Relevant information for physicians is not influenced by the person who makes a decision on data collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Theoretical framework: Over the years there have been substantial changes in the amount of documentation in nursing as a result of information technologies that are part of the daily work of health professionals. Physicians are the greatest consumers of the information collected, processed and documented by nurses, given the relevance of this information in the process of clinical decision-making. Objectives: To identify and describe the information collected, processed and documented by nurses that appears most relevant to the medical profession. Methodology: Qualitative and exploratory study using participant observation (98 hours) and interviews (3) with key informants, conducted in the hospital. Inductive content analysis of field notes and interviews. Results: The most relevant information for doctors depends on the context of the subject, action and professions and can be aggregated into three categories: «monitoring parameters»; «medications and therapeutic attitudes»; and «recurrent data». Conclusion: Strategies for data collection are capable of generating valid data for the identification of categories of information most relevant to physicians («monitoring parameters», «medications and therapeutic attitudes» and «recurrent data»). The information relevant for physicians is not influenced by the person who decides that the data are collected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]