Construction and validation of a tool to Assess the Use of Light Technologies at Intensive Care Units.

Objective: to construct and validate a tool to assess the use of light technologies by the nursing team at Intensive Care Units.

Method: methodological study in which the tool was elaborated by means of the psychometric method for construction based on the categorization of health technologies by Merhy and Franco, from the National Humanization Policy, using the Nursing Intervention Classification taxonomy to categorize the domains of the tool. Agreement Percentages and Content Validity Indices were used for the purpose of validation.

[Nurses leadership evaluation by nursing aides and technicians according to the 360-degree feedback method].

Objective: to assess the leadership of nurses of a maternity hospital according to the nursing aides and technicians and the 360-degree feedback method.

Method: a descriptive, cross-sectional study. The population was 19 nurses and 96 nursing aides and assistants.

[Brazilian Nursing Association, Sergipe section: 52 years of will, claw, and heart].

This is a contribution for the history of nursing from Sergipe and, as a consequence, for the Brazilian Nursing. It aims at rescuing the Brazilian Nursing Association, Sergipe's Section history and to document the accomplishment of this entity into the scientific, cultural and political scenery. A qualitative research, whose data were collected by means of oral and official history registered on books, journals, and other documents.