Childcare records in primary care: a descriptive study

Aim: To investigate, in the records of medical charts, how to perform childcare by the teams of the Family Health Strategy, working at a Basic Health Unit in Maringá, Paraná. Method: Data were collected in January 2011, from the consultation of medical records of 181 children born between July 2008 and January 2010, in which relevant data were observed of the children monitoring during the first year of life. Results: The nurse was responsible for 51.9% of child consultations. It was further observed that the rate of unfilled medical charts in several fields was high. Discussion: The number of childcare consultations made by nurses demonstrates its importance in monitoring the health of children. Final considerations: It is believed that the implementation of a standard form to record the child consultations should minimize the under-reporting of the monitoring activities of the children, by facilitating and systematizing annotations