Authentic leadership among nursing professionals: knowledge and profile.

Objectives: to identify the knowledge of nursing professionals about leadership models and evaluate the authentic leadership profile among them.

Methods: analytical study, conducted between August and December 2015, involving 84 nursing professionals working in a public and tertiary hospital. We used two instruments: Sociodemographic Questionnaire with questions about leadership and the Authentic Leadership Questionnaire.

Evaluation of fecal microorganisms of children with cleft palate before and after palatoplasty.

This study isolated and quantified intestinal bacteria of children with cleft palate before and after palatoplasty. A prospective study was conducted from May 2007 to September 2008 on 18 children with cleft palate, aged one to four years, of both genders, attending a tertiary cleft center in Brazil for palatoplasty, to analyze the effect of surgical palate repair on the concentration of anaerobes Bacteroides sp, Bifidobacterium sp and microaerophiles Lactobacillus sp in feces of infants with cleft palate before and 24 hours after treatment with cefazolin for palatoplasty. There was significant reduction of Lactobacillus sp (p < 0.

Longitudinal study of the growth of infants with isolated Robin sequence considered being severe cases.

Aim: To study the growth of infants with isolated Robin sequence (IRS) considered being severe cases during the first 6 months of life.

Methods: Twenty infants with IRS, considered being severe cases were followed in a pure prospective longitudinal study. Feeding facilitating techniques were applied to all infants after airway disobstruction and a hypercaloric diet was offered.