Enfermagem de reabilita？？o: percurso para a avalia？？o da qualidade em unidades de internamento

this article is an attempt to present a route to identify factors that contribute to the quality of nursing care for inpatient rehabilitation units and to identify instruments used to design and evaluate a way to create an assessment instrument for care in rehabilitation nursing. this is a qualitative study conducted in the medical services of a hospital in the north of portugal, whose participants were twelve nurse specialists in rehabilitation, and the data collection method was semi-structured interview. the results that emerge from the participants’ narratives translate into a set of attributes that illustrate the model proposed by donabedian, based on three components of health care: structure, process and outcome, and the cycle of continuous improvement proposed by deming. we analised the specific requirements for good practice in rehabilitation care.