The care for the persistent family aggressor in the perception of nursing students.

Objective: to analyze the perception of nursing students about the care given to the persistent family aggressor.

Method: a descriptive study, with a qualitative approach. Madeleine Leininger's Theory of Diversity and Universality of Care was used as a theoretical reference.

The construction and validation of an instrument for the assessment of graduates of undergraduate nursing courses.

Objective: to construct an instrument for the assessment of graduates of undergraduate nursing courses and to validate this instrument through the consensus of specialists.

Method: methodological study. In order to elaborate the instrument, documental analysis and a literature review were undertaken.

[Facing the difficult experience even with support: the underage adolescent experiencing motherhood].

Objectives: To understand the meaning of childcare for the underage adolescent mother, to reveal the demands of care and to build a theoretical model based on this experience.

Method: Qualitative research with symbolic interactionism as the theoretical framework and the grounded theory as the methodological framework; nine adolescents participated in the study. The semi-structured interview was used to collect data from September 2008 to September 2011, during paediatric nursing consultation at the Centro Assistencial Cruz de Malta, a philanthropic institution in the city of São Paulo/Brazil.

[Maternal perception regarding hospitalized newborns].

Cross-sectional descriptive study conducted in the neonatal unit of a public teaching hospital in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, which aimed to determine the perceptions of mothers about their newborns hospitalized children. The sample consisted of 100 women questioned, through the Neonatal Perception Inventory Broussard, about how much trouble was expected to be presented by babies of the general unit, on behaviors such as crying; feeding; regurgitate or vomit; evacuate; sleep and have a routine. Then, the same questions were repeated about their own babies.

Clinical validation of nursing diagnosis "parental role conflict" in mothers of hospitalized newborns.

Objective: To clinically validate the nursing diagnosis, parental role conflict, in mothers of hospitalized newborns.

Method: Fehring's Clinical Validation Model was used, focusing on mothers, using a sample of 83. Major defining characteristics have been defined as the main indicators of the presence of a diagnosis, whereas minor are secondary indicators.

Parental role conflict: the nursing diagnosis in mothers of hospitalized newborns.

Objective: To verify if mothers of newborns hospitalized recognize the defining characteristics of "parental role conflict" as representative of that experience.

Methods: A cross-sectional and descriptive study, developed in a neonatal unit of a public teaching hospital in the state of São Paulo. The sample consisted of 100 women who assigned scores of 1 to 5 to the defining characteristics of the diagnosis, where 1 meant "not at all characteristic" and 5 meant "completely characteristic of what I am experiencing.

[Theory-practice unit in an integrated curriculum praxis: nursing teachers' perception in children and teenagers' health].

The study aimed to understand Nursing teachers' perception about the theory-practice relation experienced in Nursing education on children and adolescents' health, in an integrated curriculum. A qualitative and descriptive study was developed, grounded on Vázquez, Freire and Bakhtin's theoretical models. Unstructured interviews were used to collect data.

[Aspects of sexuality in adolescence].

The study involved 920 adolescents between 12 and 19 years of age in junior and senior high schools of the region of Santo Eduardo of the city of Embu, São Paulo. The objective was to identify aspects of sexuality of adolescents of both sexes. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire, the results of which established the difference between boys and girls with respect to their quest for specific information about sexuality; 39% of boys and 17% of girls practiced sexual intercourse, and among these, 77% of boys and 84% of girls used preservativos.

[Maternity in adolescence: a dream come true and future expectation].

This qualitative study aimed at describing the reasons that motivate an adolescent to get pregnant and her expectations about the future after the child's birth. Symbolic Interactionism was used as theoretical framework and Grounded Theory as the methodological one. Eight adolescent mothers aged between 15 and 19 years who lived the experience of caring for their children took part in the study.

Nurses knowledge about the insertion procedure for peripherally inserted central catheters in newborns.

The right to practice the Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) technique, mainly in neonatal intensive care units, was achieved by nursing and consists of efforts that lead to a new challenge: the improvement of the practice of this procedure. This study determined and evaluated the theoretical and practical knowledge acquired by nurses in qualification courses concerning aspects of PICC line insertion in the case of newborns. This descriptive and quantitative study used a questionnaire with nine questions to collect data.

[Knowledge of STD/AIDS among adolescent students].

This study aims to analyze the degree of knowledge adolescents have on STD/AIDS prevention, transmission, signs, and symptoms, and to contribute with the elaboration of educational actions in the University Extension Program called Corporality and Health Promotion. The research counted on 1,087 adolescents (40% females, 60% males) and was carried out in three elementary and high schools located in the municipality of Embu. A structured, multiple choice questionnaire was applied.

[Clinical teaching in nursing: the scientific production path].

It's a bibliographic study, in which it was made a scientific production survey on nursing referring to clinical teaching in the Catálogo de Dissertações e Teses do Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas em Enfermagem (CEPEn) (Nursing Study and Research Center's Dissertation and Thesis Catalog) from Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem - ABEn (Brazilian Nursing Association) between 1979 and 2004. It was aimed to describe the study distribution regarding to the number of publishing, applied title, publishing origin, year of application, methodology used and the theme approached. It was concluded that scientific production in this area is still incipient.

[The sexual behavior of adolescents in some schools in the city of Embu, São Paulo, Brazil].

It is a descriptive, qualitative study aimed at identifying some aspects related to teenagers' sexual behavior. The subjects of the study were 920 adolescents aged 10 to 19, who were attending primary and secondary schools in the region of Santo Eduardo, municipality of Embu, São Paulo, Brazil. The data were collected through a questionnaire with 28 structured questions.

[The teaching-learning process in ICU: a phenomenological study].

This study aimed to understanding the meaning attributed by teaching staff throughout the traineeship from nursing under graduation course in intensive care on the teaching and learning process. It's a study of phenomenological qualitative approach. The data were obtained through the following guiding question: 'How do you live the teaching-learning process at the ICU traineeship?'.

Conceptions held by health professionals on violence against children and adolescents within the family.

The present study sought to understand the conceptions held by health professionals with regards to violence within the family against children and adolescents. Qualitative case-study methodology and techniques of participant observation, interviewing, and search in documents were used. Participants were staffed in a government-run Family Health Basic Unit in Brazil.