Assessment of stress in the inclusion of nursing students in hospital practice.

Objective: To verify the presence of stress among undergraduate nursing students in different stages of hospital practice.

Method: Descriptive, cross-sectional study addressing 86 nursing students in their 6th, 7th, and 9th semesters in 2011. An instrument developed by Costa and Polak for the Assessment of Stress Among Nursing Students was used.

[Construction of an educational technology for teaching about nursing on peripheral venipuncture].

The aim of the study was to describe the construction of a course on peripheral venipuncture using the Information and Communication Technologies. This is a methodological research, developed at the Federal University of Ceara from January to March 2012. The construction phases are: the analysis, design and development according to the theoretical framework of Galvis-Panqueva.