Objective To validate the Nursing Report for a pediatric intensive care unit regarding its appearance and content. Methods A methodological study regarding the validation of a nursing report for a teaching hospital in the Northwest region of Paraná. The instrument, built in a previous stage, was elaborated with information obtained in a review of pertinent literature and empirical evidence pointed out by nurses who experience these units. The temporary version was submitted to a board of evaluators (March-November/2014), whose expertise contributed to the evaluation process of appearance and content (analysis, rearrangement, refinement, finalization). Results The Pertinence of Content criterion, relative to the topics of the instrument, reached the highest levels of agreement among the evaluators (78-100%). The topics that did not reach the pre-defined agreement level were replaced, excluded or reformulated. The restructured instrument was revalued by the evaluators, obtaining satisfactory agreement levels in all the criteria (78-100%). Conclusions The final version was validated in terms of appearance and content, and is suitable to be used.

a agosto de 2008 por meio de entrevistas com 21 servidoras usuárias do referido Centro de Educação Infantil. A análise dos depoimentos das participantes, segundo Minayo, possibilitou a identificação dos seguintes temas: Pré-natal e amamentação; Aleitamento materno: início, apoio e influências e Perspectiva de volta ao trabalho, do ingresso do bebê no Centro de Educação Infantil e aleitamento materno exclusivo. O estudo evidenciou a necessidade de realização de medidas educativas e institucionais no sentido de criar condições objetivas para que as servidoras usuárias do Centro de Educação Infantil amamentem exclusivamente seus filhos até os seis meses. DESCRITORES: Creches; Aleitamento materno; Saúde da criança; Saúde da mulher; Promoção da saúde.The aim of this study was to understand the factors related to the duration of exclusive breastfeeding among mothers who can make use of a Day Care Center in their work place. It is a qualitative research, accomplished in the Day Care Center of the Maringá State University. The data were collected from May to August 2008, through interviews with 21 staff members, users of the Center. The analysis of the participants' statements, according to Minayo, made possible the identification of the following themes: Prenatal and breastfeeding; Breastfeeding: beginning, support and influences, Perspectives on going back to work, the baby's admission to the Day Care Center and exclusive breastfeeding. The study evidenced the need of accomplishing educational and institutional measures in the sense of creating objective conditions so that the workers would breastfeed their children exclusively up to their six months of age and, at the same time, make use of the Day Care Center. DESCRIPTORS: Child day care centers; Breast feeding; Child health; Women's health; Health promotion.El objetivo de este estudio fue englobar los factores relacionados a la duración del amamantamiento materno exclusivo entre madres que utilizan el