REVIEW ARTICLE DOI: 10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v15i3.26357 Cienc Cuid Saude 2016 Jul/Sep; 15(3):561-569 _______________ 1 Manuscript is part of the master's thesis defended by the graduate program in nursing at Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA), linked to the research project "Systematization of nursing care in Pediatric intensive care unit: a Convergent Healthcare Research", developed by the group for study and research on the health of the family, the child and adolescent (GEPSFCA) with financial support of CNPq. *Nurse, master in nursing. Member of the GEPSFCA. Caring nurse at the University Hospital at UFMA. São Luis, Maranhão, Brazil. Email: danilomasantos@hotmail.com **Nurse, doctor, nursing Professor at UFMA, Coordinator of the research project and GEPSFCA leader. São Luis, Maranhão, Brazil. Email: fgeorginasousa@hotmail.com ***Student of undergraduate degree in nursing at UFMA, Undergraduate Research Scholar-CNPq, Member of the GEPSFCA. São Luis, Maranhão, Brazil. Email: valeria_paiva_10@hotmail.com ****Student of undergraduate degree in nursing at UFMA, Undergraduate Research Scholar-CNPq, Member of the GEPSFCA. São Luis, Maranhão, Brazil. Email: drianatorres@hotmail.com *****Nurse, Academic Master's degree Student in nursing at UFMA, Member of the GEPSFCA. São Luis, Maranhão, Brazil. Email: enf_jaynara@yahoo.com.br THE NURSING BASED ON EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HISTORY OF NURSING: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC SEARCH 1 Danilo Marcelo Araujo dos Santos* Francisca Georgina Macedo de Sousa** Mirtes Valéria Sarmento Paiva*** Adriana Torres Santos**** Jaynara Menezes Sousa Pinheiro***** ABSTRACT The History of Nursing directs the planning of the other phases of the Nursing Process, so its construction should be based on scientific evidence which led to the formulation of the following research question: what is the Brazilian scientific production on History of Nursing you can to base the construction of this instrument for the care of children / adolescents in the context of pediatric intensive care? Objective of the research was to identify and describe scientific evidence for the construction of Nursing History to support care in pediatric intensive care at a university hospital in northeastern Brazil. This is literature on integrative mode. We identified 14 scientific evidence, which provided the basis for construction of Nursing History and contributed to density of knowledge, expanding possibilities available to the nursing service an instrument to suit the sector's specificities and the care process reducing the failure possibilities the implementation of the Nursing Process. Keywords: Nursing. Childcare. Intensive care units.. INTRODUCTION Nursing history (HE) is the first phase of the nursing process (PE) and this is an investigation where it assesses the health of human beings. From a screenplay systematized, the nurse seeks to obtain meaningful data allowing identification of problems, the patient's perceptions and expectations that require nursing care (1,2) . The application of the HE takes time, work, knowledge and skills to carry out research that linked to physical examination designed to gather data essential to the proof or not of diagnostic hypotheses (1,3,4) . In this way, the responsibility of caring in nursing requires that decisions about proposed interventions be based on the assessment of the State of health of the individual (5) . With the use of HE, the nurse analyzes the characteristics and relevant information for each patient in order to correctly identify nursing problems and carry out clinical trial to the search of solutions (6) . Thus, the collection of accurate and reliable data is essential for the identification of actual or potential patient problems and in this way build inferences those subsidiaries the construction of nursing diagnoses and the targeting of the remaining stages of the PE. Otherwise, all that careful methodology can be affected, and fail to meet needs identified by the inadequate use of the historical (2,4) . This assertive, coupled with the importance of developing critical to secure decisions, States that the construction of the HE must be grounded in scientific evidence. So, question: what is the Brazilian scientific production on the history of nursing that can support the construction of this instrument for the care the child/teenager in the context of intensive