Potentialities and difficulties in nursing education during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: To know the potentialities and difficulties in Nursing teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, in Rio Grande do Sul (RS).

Method: Cross-sectional study carried out with coordinators of 48 undergraduate Nursing courses in the state of RS, Brazil, between October 2020 and January 2021, using an electronic questionnaire sent to participants by email. Data analysis was performed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Brazilian overview of nurses' training during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: To present the Brazilian panorama of the training of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method: a cross-sectional study, carried out with 335 coordinators of undergraduate courses in Nursing and online data collection, between November 2020 and March 2021.

Results: All Brazilian states were represented.

Curricular reforms in the transformation of nursing teaching in a federal university.

Objectives: to discuss the curricular reforms adopted for nursing teaching in Brazil, from 1969 to 2019.

Methods: historical, qualitative approach using the thematic oral history and document research. 13 interviews were carried out with graduation nursing professors from a federal university in the South of Brazil.

Nursing care for patient in post operatory heart surgery in the Intensive Care Unit.

Objective: To investigate the critical nodes related to nursing care for patients in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery.

Methods: Exploratory study with a qualitative approach. Data collected through semi-structured interviews with 27 members of the nursing team working in the Intensive Care Unit.

Validating a Nursing Assessment instrument in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Objective: To develop and validate a Nursing History instrument for a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, based on the Theory of Basic Human Needs.

Methods: Methodological study, developed between October 2018 and April 2019, based on the establishment of a theoretical-conceptual structure; construction of items and of the response scale; selection and organization of items; structuring the instrument; expert opinion; and content and appearance validation.

Results: The instrument was organized in three sequential and complementary stages.

Children hospitalized due to maltreatment in the ICU of a Public Health Service.

Objective: to characterize children hospitalized due to violence in a pediatric ICU in 2011; to relate violence and the mechanisms of trauma with death; to know the contextualization of violence, from the records in the medical records.

Method: retrospective cohort, performed in a first aid hospital, Porto Alegre city, in the records of 22 children hospitalized in the ICU due to violence. Quantitative analysis was performed by absolute and relative frequency rates, chi-square and relative risk.

[Implications of the visibility in professional nursing practices].

Nursing construction image is permeated by historical socioeconomic and cultural aspects. This theme aims to understand the perception of nurses regarding the visibility of nursing staff's daily work. This qualitative research is exploratory, with 30 nurses at a university hospital in southern Brazil.

[The Brazilian Nursing Congress: sixty years of history].

This study objective is to describe the issues associated to the origin of the Brazilian Nursing Congress and its course between 1947 and 2007; and to discuss the implementation of this strategy by the Brazilian Nursing Association (ABEn). It is a historical survey with documentary research. The documentary analysis allowed reaching the following categories: the origin of the Brazilian Nursing Congress and the congresses as the political nursing arena.

[Olga Verderese--a life dedicated to nursing].

The aim of the research was to describe the educational and professional history of Olga Verderese and highlight her remarkable contributions to the scientific field of the profession. It was based on Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and scientific field. The sociohistorical study used sources such as interviews with Olga Verderese, a thesis and a dissertation on the topic and documents such as articles, books and recommendations by the Brazilian Nursing Association (ABEn).

[The image nursing students have about their own ageing].

The aim of this study was to understand how nursing students at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) imagine themselves in the oldness and how they prepare themselves for oldness. The methodology used was with Qualitative approach involving ten subjects. It was found out that the nursing students do not prepare themselves for the ageing process and that their image of oldness is based on the examples obtained throughout their lives.

[The trajectory of Edith Magalhães Fraenkel].

This article is about Edith Magalhães Fraenckel's life in the scenario of Brazilian Nursing in the XX Century. It describes the professional life in the context of her daily life, focusing her trajectory in the Brazilian Nursing Association (ABEn). The research method used interviews from the ABEn's collection of History of Nursing and also the author's personal collection, as well as books and journals articles.

[Florence Nightingale and charity sisters: revisiting the history].

This study presents an historical analysis on the links between the nursing practice and the influence received from various religious orders/associations along the times, especially from Saint Vincent Paul's charity sisters. The professional nursing which was pioneered by Florence Nightingale in the XlXth century, was directly influenced by the teachings of love and fraternity. In addition, other contributions from the religious orders/associations were the concepts of altruism, valorization of an adequate environment for the care of patients, and the division of work in nursing.

[Permanent education in the context of nursing and health].

In this essay authors discuss the current proposal of permanent education by the Health Ministry, which is focused on the formation of human resources for the Public Health System. It covers education as a whole and specifically adult education, an issue that directly affects nursing, as nursing contributes with the largest number of healthcare workers, constituting the central focus of public policies. In this way authors present the main controversies and suggest adherence to the government program, understanding that for the first time there is a comprehensive project in this area that is intended to be permanent.

[Hilda Anna Krisch: a nursing pioneer in Santa Catarina--education and contribution for the profession].

This is a socio-historical research whose objective is to unveil the historicity of the first nurse in Santa Catarina who graduated at a Nursing School in the twentieth century, a character who had a prominent role in the national scene for her performance as a nurse. The data collection was carried out through the examination of many historical documents: interviews conducted with her and other people who had been part of the scene of the time, as well as other documentary sources, such as letters, school and professional reports, pictures, among others. To analyse the data, it was used an approach based on the social imagery.

[Critical aspects in nursing scientific production -- papers presented to REBEn].

This is an exploratory descriptive study which aims at detecting critical aspects of the manuscripts submitted to REBEn (Brazilian Journal of Nursing) for publishing. Data was collected through the evaluation instruments used by the Editorial Board of REBEn on the selection of articles for the journal. Thirty-two evaluation reports, which represent 50% of the articles published in one volume of the journal, were analyzed.