Management of a university ambulatory service: nursing in the coping of the pandemic of COVID-19.

Objective: to describe the implementation and management of a restructured nursing service to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: a descriptive study, carried out at Piquet Carneiro Polyclinic, a university ambulatory unit, which became a reference for testing the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Results: dimensioning of human resources for nursing was carried out; flows for serving users of the unit and for testing SARS-CoV-2; professional training on prevention practices.

No place to shelter: ethnography of the homeless population in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: to analyze how homeless people live, in times of COVID-19 pandemic, in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Method: an ethnographic research that used interviews and observations and articles published in newspapers and magazines of great circulation, using domain analysis.

Results: the results tell how the COVID-19 pandemic emerged for the homeless population.