Reproductive planning and pregnancy of HIV serodiscordant couples: a phenomenological study.

Objective: To understand the experience of reproductive planning and pregnancy for HIV serodiscordant couples.

Method: Qualitative study, with phenomenological approach, theoretical-philosophical-methodological framework of Martin Heidegger. The field stage took place in a reference service in the care for people living with HIV, in southern Brazil.

Women's autonomy in the process of labour and childbirth: integrative literature review.

Objective: To identify the available evidence in scientific literature on healthcare practices that interfere with the autonomy of Brazilian women in the labour and delivery process.

Method: The search for papers was conducted in the databases LILACS, Scopus and PubMed, between 1996 and 2015, according to a guiding question and exclusion criteria, resulting in the selection of 22 papers to compose the analytic body.

Results: The main practices that favoured the exercise of women's autonomy were out-of-hospital care practices; care practices of support and comfort; and educational care practices.

[Obstetric Nurses: contributions to the objectives of the Millennium Development Goals].

Objective: To characterize and analyze assistance to labor and delivery performed by residents in Obstetric Nursing.

Method: Quantitative and retrospective study of 189 normal births attended by residents in Obstetric Nursing in the period between July 2013 and June 2014 in a maternity hospital located in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul. Data collection took place by gathering information from medical records and the analysis was performed using descriptive statistics.