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Introduction: Nursing records are part of the clinical history of the patient and give testimony of the activity that nursing provides to the patient, of their actions with him, both in the diagnosis, the treatment as well as in his evolution, supporting himself in the process of nursing care in a rational and systematic way, thereby enhancing the quality of nursing care and becoming the proof of the care provided to the patient. Objective: to analyze the internal consistency of a nursing registry model in a public hospital in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out in the Coronary Unit of a public institution in the August-October 2021 period. The sample consisted of 64 nurses. After applying the data collection instrument in the selected sample, the construct validation was carried out by analyzing the factors and verifying the internal consistency using Cronbach's alpha. Results: The analysis of internal consistency was carried out through Cronbach's Alpha. The descriptive results with the 22 items showed a variance of each item of 3.856, a total variance of 26.816, with a Cronbach's Alpha of 0.895, showing that the instrument presents internal consistency. Conclusions: The validated Clinical Nursing Record format represents an improvement strategy to increase the quality of care. In it, information about the care provided to patients is recorded in an orderly and holistic manner.

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Background: The relationship between healthcare personnel and those accompanying patients can give rise to cases of aggressiveness in relation to an accumulation of misunderstandings, resentments or fears, which should be detected and defused before they could give rise to aggression.Aim: to analyze the determinants of physical and non-physical violence towards health personnel by patients and accompanying persons.Methods: An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out. The scope of the study included the nursing staff working in the pediatric critical areas of a hospital in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area. The study included a sample of 63 units of analysis.Results: The sample was predominantly female (76.2%), with an average age of 45.3 years and a predominance of 66.7% of the personnel with a degree in nursing. A total of 90.5% had a history of violence by patients and/or companions. The most frequent type of violence was insults (73.7%). The result of the application of the model based on Cronbach's alpha in our sample was 0.863.Conclusions: A considerable number of nursing staff experience verbal abuse, threats and physical abuse. This study contributes to the general understanding of violence in the nursing field in the Argentine context; however, more knowledge is needed on the consequences of workplace violence and its implications through the development of multicenter studies or with larger populations.