Safe surgery: validation of pre and postoperative checklists.

Objective: to develop, evaluate and validate a surgical safety checklist for patients in the pre and postoperative periods in surgical hospitalization units.

Method: methodological research carried out in a large public teaching hospital in the South of Brazil, with application of the principles of the Safe Surgery Saves Lives Programme of the World Health Organization. The checklist was applied to 16 nurses of 8 surgical units and submitted for validation by a group of eight experts using the Delphi method online.

Transcultural adaptation and validation of the Conditions of Work Effectiveness-Questionnaire-II instrument.

Objective: This study aims at translating and validating the content of the instrument Conditions of Work Effectiveness-Questionnaire-II CWEQ-II), developed by Laschinger, Finegan, Shamian and Wilk, modified from the original CWEQ for the Brazilian culture.

Method: The methodological procedure consisted of the stages of translation of the instrument into the Portuguese language; back-translation; semantic, idiomatic and cultural equivalence and tests of the final version. The instrument in the Portuguese version was applied to a group of 40 nurses in two hospitals.

[Analysis of clinical nurses' publications in national journals].

This research study identified clinical nurses' publications. A literature review was carried out in three national periodicals between 2000 and 2007, totalizing 1918 articles. Data demonstrated that clinical nurses' authorship or co-authorship of 162 articles (8.

[The Brazilian Nursing Political Professional Project and the Aben-Paraná presidents between 1980 and 2001].

Historicizing the development of the Brazilian Nursing Political-Professional Project (PPPEB), at the Brazilian Nursing Association-Parana Division (ABEn-PR), under the optical overview of the ex-presidents during the years 1980 and 2001, identifying future action perspectives. Data information was collected with interviews and documental research with seven ex-presidents. Concluding that the PPPEB directives, directed the researched management actions.

[Research methodology for nurses at a university hospital].

This article discusses a descriptive-analytic study on research methodology education practices directed at nurse clinicians who work at a university hospital and aimed at acquiring scientific research competencies on the basis of discovery learning, tutorials and humanistic teaching strategies. Study participants were eighty-six nurses, 70 of whom concluded their projects. 28 of these resulted in scientific studies, most of which were experience reports, descriptive and exploratory investigations.