Transitions experienced by people living with limitations resulting from leprosy: a research-care study.

Objective: to understand the transitional processes that affect the adaptation of people who live with limitations resulting from leprosy.

Methods: This is a qualitative study based on the precepts of Transition Theory, mediated by care-research, with 24 people with limitations resulting from leprosy in an ex-hospital colony in Piauí. Semi-structured interviews were carried out.

Teaching-learning tendencies and strategies used in the leadership development of nurses.

Objective: To identify the tendencies and teaching-learning strategies used for leadership development in the discipline Nursing Administration in higher education institutions in Brazil.

Method: Non-experimental, type survey, descriptive and exploratory, cross-sectional, with quantitative approach.

Results: The dialogued lecture strategy was cited as used by 241 (91%) professors, followed by research, by 237 (89%), and discussion or group work, by 221 (83%).

[Adolescence in the perception of primary school teachers].

This qualitative research was performed with 11 primary school teachers at a state school in the city of Curitiba/Brazil, with the goal to identify how primary school teachers perceive adolescence. The information was collected by means of a Group Discussion strategy and organized in four theme-categories. The teachers' statements revealed the plurality of the adolescence process, stressing its uniqueness.

[Nurse's care practice according to the view of the healthcare team].

This study aims to comprehend the healthcare team perception about the (in)visibility of care practice of being a nurse in pediatric critical care units, according to Paterson and Zderad Humanist Theory. This is a qualitative research that combines the phenomenological approach. For data collection, it was used semi-structured interviews with nurses, physicians, psichologists, physiotherapists, nurse aides and hygienization employes working in pediatric critical care units of a hospital in Curitiba.

[Inclusive nursing care for individuals suffering from Down's syndrome under Paterson and Zderad's view].

This is a thought-provoking study approaching inclusive nursing care rendered to individuals suffering from Down's syndrome in light of some assumptions made in Paterson and Zderad's theory. Its aim is to uncover Paterson and Zderad's humanistic theory, by emphasizing some of its assumptions as applied to individuals suffering from Down's syndrome, and by outlining the participation of nurses in inclusive care of such cases, through a conscious practice related to the humanistic theory. By providing individuals suffering from Down's syndrome with health care based on the humanistic theory referential, it is possible to reckon each human being as a unique existent being, therefore understanding his/her meaning.

[Pregnant adolescents in a transition phase: a nursing focus on caring-researching].

The objective of this study is to understand the change women go through in their daily life, considering the transition during adolescence and maternity. It aims at understanding the existential meaning of the pregnant adolescent, facing transition, as a located phenomenon, in the simultaneity of life events. Data were collected through the discourse of eight pregnant adolescents who answered a phenomenological interview guided by the question: "What is it to be a pregnant adolescent undergoing transition, as a located phenomenon, in the simultaneity of life events?" The comprehensive analysis of the reports was based on the Heideggerian hermeneutics.