Identifying and classifying nursing actions for human immunodeficiency virus-positive pregnant women Identificação e classificação das ações de enfermagem para gestantes portadoras do vírus da imunodeficiência humana*

Objective: To classify nursing interventions for HIV positive pregnant women according to CIPE ® beta 2 version. Methods: 123 medical records of pregnant women registered at the Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy of the Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, independently of the gestational period at the beginning of prenatal care or the outcome of labour (normal, cesarean or abortion), as long as these records were completed. Nurses’s actions in this universe were analysed. Results: 2997 nursing interventions were performed according to the data of the 123 records. The interventions were registered in handwriting and an informal language predominated. Only the A axis (type and action) was selected for the study. Conclusions: The register of nursing care allowed its identification and classification and the use of CIPE ® showed advantages for the use of this taxonomy in specialized services.