Factors associated with low Apgar in newborns in birth center.

Objective: to analyze factors associated with Apgar of 5 minutes less than 7 of newborns of women selected for care at the Center for Normal Birth (ANC).

Method: a descriptive cross-sectional study with data from 9,135 newborns collected between July 2001 and December 2012. The analysis used absolute and relative frequency frequencies and bivariate analysis using Pearson's chi-square test or the exact Fisher.

[Social relations between the nursing team and the parents of hospitalized children].

By means of partially structured interviews and assistematic observation, the authors attempt to identify the types of social relations that occur between the nursing team and the parents visiting the hospitalized child.

[Popular use of medicinal plants in infancy: implications for nursing].

An exploratory study is made by nurses -with a group of mothers with the purpose of identifying reasons for the popular use of medicinal plants by mothers caring for their children within the 0-2 years age range. Influence of the social, economical and cultural factores involved are considered. The implications of this data for nursing care and for teaching it are described.

[Nursing behavior during the admission of a child to the hospital].

A qualitative analysis is made of the nursing procedure of admitting a child to a governmental general hospital, with emphasis upon to the role of the nurse. The purpose of the analysis is to obtain data which could facilitate the understanding of the nurse's involvement in this procedure. The data will later be used in a participative research project which will be made with the nursing team in a pediatric ward.

[Student-centered teaching: an experience told by nursing studentes being taught under this method].

Four master's degree nursing students tell of their learning experience in a pediatric nursing program based on student-centered teaching methodology. The students relate their initial doubts about the effectivity of the methodology, the difficulties they encountered in formulating a program to be followed, and their observations of the behavior and the attitudes presented by their teacher-facilitator. In order to attain their particular learning objectives for the program, the group chose to start an experiment involving maternal-child care in a slum area of são Paulo.

[Research in maternal-child nursing].

By way of a short bibliographical revision, these authors outline some general directives for research in the maternal-child area of nursing. They identify existing research projects in this area, which are published in three bibliographical sources. They depict the predominance of emphasis in these projects - be it nursing assistance, administration or teaching.