Occupational stress of nurses from the Mobile Emergency Care Service.

Objective: To evaluate stress, and to associate it with sociodemographic and clinical aspects of nurses from the Mobile Emergency Care Service.

Method: This is an observational, cross-sectional and quantitative study conducted with 123 nurses, who answered a questionnaire to assess sociodemographic and clinical variables, and the Job Stress Scale, which evaluates stress in the workplace.

Results: The results indicated that most of them were women, 20 to 40 years old, married, without another employment bond and with specialization course.

The meaning of hope for individuals with spinal cord injury in Brazil.

Aim: To understand the meaning of hope among individuals with spinal cord injury.

Design: A qualitative study employing the ethnographic method was used, with 18 individuals.

Method: Participant observation was chosen to understand individuals with spinal cord injury and interviews were used to elicit information about the hope experience.

Protocol for a scoping review on nursing care and the autonomy of disabled persons.

Introduction: Considering the limitations that disabled persons experience, our understanding of caring for these people has evolved over time worldwide. Because nursing care is dependent on the choices made by patients, nurses can play an emancipatory role by empowering patients with disabilities to become the primary agent in their rehabilitation. Objective was to conduct a range analysis protocol proposing the mapping of conceptual elements for a nursing care model based on the autonomy of disabled persons.

[Nurse undergraduate students' perception of quality of life].

The research objective was to know nurse undergraduate students' perception of quality of life. A cross-sectional study was conducted from August 2010 to August 2011 with 56 nursing students of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Brasilia, Brazil. A specific questionnaire was used (sociodemographic, academic and health profile) and the WHOQOL-BREF.

Social model: a new approach of the disability theme.

The experience of disability is part of the daily lives of people who have a disease, lesion or corporal limitation. Disability is still understood as personal bad luck; moreover, from the social and political points of view, the disabled are seen as a minority. The aim of this study is to contribute to the knowledge about the experience of disability.