[Safe maternity: experience with a new practice in natal/newborn care -- Brazil]

This is a descriptive work of the experience report type developed in the Januário Cicco School Maternity/UFRN in Natal/Rn since 1996, when five nurses gegun changes in her professional practices, through of the Project of "Especialization of Obstetric Nursing: Nursing Midwifery Skills for a Safe Maternity." The objectives of the study are to reduce or to eliminate risks for the women that wish to stay pregnant and/or to have kids and to guarantee na humaning assistance during pregnant, delivery, pos-natal and childbirth that will be obtain through of conscious professionals that works with value complex, decisions and actions, involving the health/ill, process related of the woman in the pregnant pos-natal cycle. Were created Standards of Quality in the Admission Assistance, Labour, Delivery, Pos-Natal, childbirth and Domiciliare Visit until one month of life. Since it implantation, the Project already shows some changes in the service the active participation of the nurse in the childbirth process, offering, essencially, satisfaction at the parturient and to the professionals involves in the Project.