Abstract
This is a qualitative study with intervention aimed to propose and validate an instrument of a nursing perioperative assessment, emphasizing the prior moment to surgery. Based on the literature about this subject, the instrument that was validated for content was elaborated together with fifteen nurses-managers by means of the focus group technique, discussed with the nursing staff of the Surgical Center and then applied to twenty elective surgical patients at the Hospital of Marília from June to August of two thousand and thirteen, in order to analyze its feasibility, aiming its forthcoming implantation. It has been aggregated identification aspects, such as trans-operative information. The instrument is practicable as it showed to be an easy and fast filling, as well as it received positive evaluation accompanied by suggestions from the nursing professionals of the Surgical Center and the nurses of the admission unit. Furthermore, it provided important reflection about the hospital work process and its implications in the care line.