[Phenomenological study about the nurse's home care for families of terminally ill patients].

The present study is a qualitative and phenomenological research aimed to understand the phenomenon Nurses working in the FHP (Family Health Program) and home care provided to the family living in a home where terminality of one of its members is being experienced. The study was carried out with healthcare providers who work in the Southeastern Region of the city of Sao Paulo/SP, Brazil. Existential phenomenology was used as the theoretical background.

[Teaching scientific investigation methods at a private university].

The purpose of this descriptive, exploratory study was to analyze, with focus on the referential of the communicative action paradigm, what were listed as ease and difficulties by fifteen students of specialization courses in Nursing concerning the teaching process of the discipline of Scientific Investigation Methods. The categories expressed as ease and difficulties regarding the discipline's content, the elaboration of the research project and its development were analyzed in accordance with the standardized types of communicative action. After the analysis there could be noticed an emergence of elements at different development levels interpreted in a sequence of communication forms that show no commitment with innovation or change of the teaching process, demonstrating the disturbances of the consensus in this process.

[Life quality of family caregivers of the schizophrenic patient].

It was aimed to verify the concept of life quality (LQ) of family caregivers of schizophrenic patient bearers and to identify the factors that interfere in their quality lives. For that an exploratory-descriptive, and traverse research was accomplished with 52 family caregivers that live with the patient. It was concluded that the relatives defined life quality as: "to have health, to work and support the family" (35); "to have health (9); "to have health, to have good hospitals and to live in a better neighborhood"(3); "to have health and to continue taking care of them" (2); "to have health and own house" (2); "to have money to get a better treatment" (1).

[Nursing diagnosis made in elderly people with mental disorders].

This is a descriptive, exploratory study with a qualitative and quantitative approach, whose aim is to identify Nursing diagnosis in elderly people suffering from mental disorders. Forty-eight elders of the mental open clinic were interviewed, by means of an instrument on quality of life, translated and validated. Data collected helped to identify sixteen Nursing diagnoses, based in North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA).

[Nursing activities in tne field of mental health].

It's not uncommon to hear complaints about the lack of speciafication of nursing interventions in Mental Health. Now a-days, with the emphasis given to multiprofessional work systems in that area, those complaints have increasead due to the belief that the system's efficiency also depends on the knowledge that each professional has about his share. Literature and this belief support us in offering a proposal of nurse's specific activities covering mental health approaches.

[Nurse patient therapeutic relationship].

The authors, a nursing student and her instructor, report their experience, in a psychiatric hospital, with a patient whose behaviour was characterized by suspiciouness and tell how the student succeeded in helping him. They pount out the nurse -patient therapeutic relationship as the basis on which psychiatric nursing is founded.

[Nursing care to patients with obsessive-compulsive symptoms].

The authors discuss the usual behavior patterns of neurotic patients with obsessive-compulsive symptoms, the meaning of this behavior and some of the main points in nursing care.

[Nursing care of patients with agitation and agressiveness manifestations].

The authors describe the nursing care of patients with agitation and aggressiveness manifestations, in order to preserve their physical and psychic integrity, to protect the integrity of those around them and to help the patient control his own behavior.

[Nursing care of confused patients].

The authors give some basic ideas about confused patients and the nursing care reeded in such cases.

[Nursing notes].

Aiming at some uniformity in nursing notes, the authors suggest a few norms on how to write them. This uniformity would help nursing students througout the whole nursing program.

[Nursing care of patients with antisocial behavior as manifestation of personality disorder].

The authors discuss how nursing personnel should deal with patients who suffer from personality disorders when they show signs of antisocial behavior.