State of the art on Advanced Nursing Practice: reflections for the agenda in Brazil.

Objectives: to review the state of the art on Advanced Nursing Practices.

Methods: a scoping review of existing publications up to 2020, in the PubMed/MEDLINE, SciELO, LILACS, BDENF, Web of Science and Scopus databases, identified by descriptors "Prática Avançada de Enfermagem" or "Advanced Practice Nursing". A total of 184 documents were selected.

Crisis, work and nursing: an ethnographic narrative of the coronavirus pandemic in Primary Care in Spain.

Objective: to narrate the experience of facing a long economic and political crisis and the experience of the arrival process of the coronavirus pandemic in a Spanish healthcare center.

Methods: this is a descriptive qualitative study with ethnographic analysis, with data collection through interviews, participant observation and field diary records.

Results: the immersion in the context allowed us to identify two axes of domain: "The crisis, work in the community and the territory in Primary Care"; "The inevitability of being a nurse in facing a health crisis".

Infection and mortality of nursing personnel in Brazil from COVID-19: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Health care personnel (HCP) worldwide are at-risk for contracting the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Among health care personnel, nurses are at a particularly high risk due to the physical proximity and duration of time spent providing direct care. Documenting accurate rates of COVID-19 infection and deaths among nurses worldwide has been problematic, and many countries such as the USA have no systematic mechanism for collecting this information.

Social control and nursing performance in defense of life in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: to reflect on social control in health and the contributions that nursing can make to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: this is a theoretical reflection, elaborated from discussions based on literature and the experience of authors' performance in social control and in Primary Care. It is divided into two topics: the first, related to aspects of institutionalized social control; the second, related to the perspectives for nursing in this space.

Pandemics, crisis conjunctures, and professional practices: what is the role of nursing with regard to Covid-19?

Objective: to discuss the role of Brazilian nursing to face political, economic and sanitary challenges that compose the crisis situation related to Covid-19 pandemics.

Methods: Critical-thinking study with analytics characteristics, based on latin-american critical epidemiology and on the concept of social determination of health.

Results: the central issues related to the Brazilian political-economic and health scenario are problematized, with emphasis on the impacts in terms of social inequality deepening.

Perceptions of Spanish nurses on economic crisis and the impacts on health care system.

Objective: to analyze the perceptions of Spanish nurses regarding the country's economic crisis situation, and its impacts on nursing work, health system and population's health.

Methods: qualitative approach, with data collection using an internet-based questionnaire and individual in-depth interviews. Data were analyzed according to Thematic-Categorical Content Analysis, supported by Historical and Dialectical Materialism perspective.

Case management nurse in Spain: facing the challenge of chronicity through a comprehensive practice.

A new type of nurse role was established in the Spanish health care system in the late 1990s, currently called case manager nurse, to ensure access to resources needed to cope with chronic conditions and comprehensive home care. This paper aims to present this figure and discuss aspects of its work. The methodology was based on the bibliographic review of papers and normative publications and interviews with primary health care nurses, nursing faculty, and case management nurses.

[Social networks, access and regulation of health services in a small city in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil].

The scope of this study was to establish the social relationships of primary health care workers for the regulation of health care from the social network perspective. It is a descriptive study using a quantitative approach in four basic care units, the control and evaluation sector, out-of-home treatment and basic care coordination. The data collection was performed via semi-structured interviews between December 2015 and January 2016 and the data were analyzed by Social Network Analysis with the support of the Ucinet and Netdraw softwares that allowed the analysis of the metrics and the creation of the sociogram.

Neoliberalist influences on nursing hospital work process and organization.

Objectives:: To describe and analyze the influence of the neoliberal economic and political model on the nursing hospital work process and organization.

Method:: Qualitative descriptive research, having as its scenery a university hospital. The subjects were 34 nursing workers.

Contributions of Public Health to nursing practice.

Objective:: Analyze the perceptions of undergraduate nursing students about the contributions of public health to nursing practice in the Unified Health System.

Method:: Qualitative Descriptive Study. Data collection was carried out through semi-directed interviews with 15 students.

[Determination or determinants? A debate based on the Theory on the Social Production of Health].

This article aims to discuss the concepts of Social Determination of Health and Social Determinants of Health, by establishing a comparison between each of their guiding perspectives and investigating their implications on the development of health policies and health actions. We propose a historical and conceptual reflection, highlighting the Theory on the Social Production of Health, followed by a debate on the concepts, with a comparative approach among them.

[Dengue Almanac: readings and narratives of Community Health Agents].

This article discusses the results of a reading-and-appropriation study, as an approach methodology to narrative universe of Health Community Agents (ACS), using the Dengue Almanac (AD), an information-communication device. Workshops with groups of ACS from Rio de Janeiro city were developed using the Almanac, aiming it's de-construction and relational reading, to improve the comprehension about knowledge's construction and appropriation on dengue and health, and evaluate the AD as an info-communicational device. The results were categorized within three axes: informational abundance during dengue's epidemics and silence between them, meaning non-information; the victim's blaming in health information's processes; ACS labor's contradictions and ambiguities as mediators.

[Brazilian nursing and the democratization of health: notes on the National Policy of Popular Education in Health].

This essay discusses the role of Brazilian nursing as a socially committed practice, in the political and pedagogic plan. The concepts of popular participation, representative and participatory democracy, and education in health are recovered, enlightened by the recent history of the constitution of social network of practices and reflections called Popular Education and Health. The construction process and the ethical-political principles of a National Policy of Popular Education in Health are presented, discussing the participation of nursing in the changes of educational practices, in spaces of political representation and formulation of public policies, with a perspective of achieving a fair and equal social order.

[Changes in work and nursing education a perspective of popular and health education].

This paper discusses the relationship between popular health education presuppositions and nursing education and work. It is divided into three parts: a presentation of Popular Education end Health field, with a brief historic, focusing some theoretical and methodological principles; discussion on pedagogic challenges related to nursing work and education, based on the curriculum of Faculty of Nursing - State University of Rio de Janeiro; and reflection about the potentiality of the insertion of theoretical-methodological elements of popular education and health field in nursing undergraduate curriculum as a way of supporting a critical-reflexive perspective in education, giving answers to health reality challenges, and to fortify pedagogic dimension of professional exercise towards democratic advances of Brazilian Health Care System.

[Drug consumption and occupational violence in working women, a multicenter study: Mexico, Peru, Brazil].

The purposes of the study were: 1) Determine the proportion of working women who consume drugs; 2) identify some occupational and personal risk factors that can predict drugs consumption; 3) identify the presence of occupational violence and its relation with drugs consumption; 4) identify differences and similarities in drugs consumption and occupational violence among women from three communities in Mexico (Monterrey), Peru (Lima) and Brazil (Rio de Janeiro). A multicenter, descriptive, correlational and comparative study was carried out, with a sample of 903 women. The results show that 11% of the participants in Mexico consume alcohol, 53% in Peru and 45% in Brazil.

[Changing the focus: an exploratory study of drug use and workplace violence among women of popular classes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil].

This exploratory study aimed to investigate factors related to the use of illicit and licit drugs and workplace violence in a group of women from popular classes in the city of Rio de Janeiro. We used a descriptive and analytic quantitative approach was used, as well as a qualitative approach through in-depth interviews with women who suffered or were suffering workplace violence, using the collective subject discourse analysis methodology. The results showed sociodemographic and work situations that can be considered as possible risk factors for drug consumption and workplace violence.