[The teaching of the nursing process to undergraduate students].

The authors, instructors of Fundamentals of Nursing, describe two experiments in teaching nursing process, for which two different types of field of practice were used: the nursing personnel of the first hospital did not employ the nursing process in the care of their patients, but on the second hospital the utilization of this process had been adopted. Two outstanding expected results were obtained: 1. The group of students, who practised in the first hospital did not believe the utilization of the nursing process would be possible in professional practices; but the groups who had seen such process being used showed a totally different attitude and agreed about the convenience of the adaption of the nursing process by the hospitals; 2.

[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.