HIV serodifference: the "unsaid" in the social representations of health professionals.

Objective: To analyze social representations from the perspective of the silent zone of health professionals regarding HIV serodifference.

Method: This is a qualitative study, based on the theoretical-methodological framework of Social Representations, with the Theory of the Central Nucleus and Mute Zone by Jean Claude Abric. 51 professionals from specialized services from the metropolitan region of a capital in the northeast of Brazil participated, from October to December 2020.

Palliative care in nursing training: higher education course coordinators' perception.

Objectives: to analyze undergraduate nursing course coordinators' perception about nursing training in palliative care.

Methods: a descriptive study, with a qualitative approach and thematic content analysis, carried out with coordinators of nursing courses in Higher Education Institutions in Rio Grande do Norte.

Results: three thematic categories emerged: Nursing training in palliative care; Potentialities for teaching palliative care; and Challenges of teaching in palliative care.

HIV serodiscordant sexual partners: social representations of health care professionals.

Objectives: to understand the structure of the social representations of health professionals from HIV/AIDS Specialized Care Services about HIV-positive partners.

Methods: this is a qualitative study, based on the structural aspect of Social Representations, developed in specialized services of the metropolitan area of a state in the Northeast Region. Fifty-one professionals were interviewed using the technique of free association of words, processed by the software IRaMuTeQ, by means of prototypical and similarity analysis.

Educational technology for primigravidae: a quasi-experimental study.

Objective: To analyze the influence of an educational technology on the knowledge of primigravidae about the signs of labor and obstetric risk.

Method: A quasi-experimental, before-and-after, non-randomized and non-concurrent study carried out with 90 primigravidae. For data analysis, descriptive statistics was applied,McNemarandStudent's t test.

Profile of nursing diagnoses in indigenous older adults in the community: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: to describe the profile of nursing diagnoses evidenced in indigenous elderly in the community.

Methods: this is a cross-sectional study, carried out with 51 indigenous elderly people of Potiguara ethnicity, through a nursing consultation. The clinical data, obtained from the consultation, were analyzed following Risner's diagnostic reasoning process and the NANDA-I Taxonomy (2018-2020).

The nurse's work in the context of COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: Reflect on the work experienced by the nurse in coping with the COVID-19 pandemic in a public hospital of the State of Rio Grande do Norte.

Methods: Reflective essay based in the professional experience in a public reference hospital for the care of patients affected by COVID-19 in the State of Rio Grande do Norte. Results were organized in two empirical categories, which emphasize potentialities and barriers in the nurse's work in the face of the COVID-19, presented by means of Ishikawa diagram.

Prone positioning as an emerging tool in the care provided to patients infected with COVID-19: a scoping review.

Objective: to describe scientific evidence regarding the use of prone positioning in the care provided to patients with acute respiratory failure caused by COVID-19.

Method: this is a scoping review. PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews was used to support the writing of this study.

Mock panels as an active teaching methodology in the education of nursing doctors.

Objective: To analyze the experience of doctorate students in the use of mock panels as an active methodology of teaching in Nursing post-graduation.

Method: Experience report on the use of mock panels in the discipline Advanced Methods for Researches in Health and Nursing II, offered in the doctorate course of the Nursing Post-graduate Program from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte.

Results: The mock panels contributed for the doctorate of nurses and enabled students to take on the role of protagonists in the teaching-learning process, through the use of critical thought and student autonomy.

Frailty Syndrome: A Risk Factor Associated With Violence in Older Adults.

Objective: The objective of this study was to analyze the association between frailty syndrome as a risk factor associated with violence in older adults.

Method: A cross-sectional study, carried out with older adults, in an emergency care unit of a northeastern Brazilian city was conducted. Three instruments were used: a form for sample characterization (i.

Nurse as an integrator in healthcare management of children with chronic condition.

Objectives: to understand the practice of the nurse in healthcare management of children with chronic condition in the hospital setting.

Methods: analytical study of qualitative approach with theoretical and methodological reference of institutional ethnography. Developed in the pediatric unit of a university hospital, in a municipality in Northeastern Brazil.

Association of parathormone and alkaline phosphatase with bone turnover and mineralization in children with CKD on dialysis: effect of age, gender, and race.

Background: Studies investigating bone histology in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are scarce.

Methods: Forty-two patients, mean age 11.3 ± 4.

The theme of violence in nursing theses from the view of technological toolboxes.

Objective: To characterize the data gathering technological tools used in nursing theses on violence from the view of "technological toolboxes".

Method: It is a descriptive and documental study, with a qualitative approach, based on Thesis available in the last ten volumes of the Catalogue of Theses and Dissertations of the Center of Nursing Studies and Research (CEPEn). Documents presenting technological tools during the data gathering of its studies were selected, and then classified using "technological toolboxes" according to Merhy.

Trauma in elderly people: access to the health system through pre-hospital care.

Objective: to identify the prevalence of trauma in elderly people and how they accessed the health system through pre-hospital care.

Method: documentary and retrospective study at a mobile emergency care service, using a sample of 400 elderly trauma victims selected through systematic random sampling. A form validated by experts was used to collect the data.

[Factors related to the place of first choice for the diagnosis of tuberculosis].

The objective of this study was to identify factors related to the place of first choice for the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis. A descriptive quantitative study was conducted in Natal/RN, throughout February/September 2012 with 60 individuals diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis that responded a questionnaire. Data were analyzed by the Chi-square and Fisher test.

[Work situations experienced by family health strategy professionals in Ceará-Mirim].

The purpose of this study was to analyze the work situations experienced by Family Health Strategy (FHS) professionals. This descriptive study was performed in Ceará-Mirim, Rio Grande do Norte state, in 2007. The population consisted of 190 FHS professionals, in which a questionnaire with closed-questions was applied.

[The extra training of nursing care in the teaching hospitals].

Study type integrative review of literature that aimed at understanding the integration of middle level nursing trainees in the nursing care of teaching hospitals. Using the theoretical framework of contextual analysis, in which the context is featured in four distinct interactive levels, and as containing meanings that facilitate the description and understanding of issues surrounding the phenomenon. We found thirteen texts which were organized in three levels of contextual issues: the nursing care under the immediate context; the working trainees, under the specific context; and the teaching hospital, as the metacontext.

Chemotherapeutic effects on larval stages of Schistosoma mansoni during infection and re-infection of mice.

The sensitivity of the larval stages of Schistosoma mansoni to chemotherapy with praziquantel and oxamniquine was tested in mice during primary and secondary infections and after different intervals from cercarial exposure. Worm recovery by perfusion of the porto-mesenteric system, followed by counting and a morphometric study of the parasite, allowed the conclusion that the relative resistance of the larval stages of S. mansoni to schistosomicide drugs, demonstrated in primary infections, also persists when the host is already infected.

A follow-up of Beagle dogs intradermally infected with Leishmania chagasi in the presence or absence of sand fly saliva.

In this study, we compare the development of infection and/or disease in Beagle dogs intradermally infected with Leishmania chagasi, in the presence or absence of Lutzomyia longipalpis saliva, with those of intravenously infected animals. Spleen samples of all the animals inoculated with parasites had positive polymerase chain reaction tests for Leishmania DNA. Positive spleen cultures for Leishmania were detected earlier (P < or = 0.