[Nurses are not into personal marketing: do history explain why?].

Reflection on the nurse's personal marketing based on beliefs and values explained by the history of the main characters that care for patients. It brings to the surface reflections on the ambiguity between the social image of nursing and scientific, technological and humanistic knowledge developed over the time. It recognizes that there is still a fixation on the attributes relating to attitude and moral of the professionals to the detriment of having high regard for the technical and scientific knowledge.

[Accreditation processes for nurses: a historical briefing].

To identify, describe and analyze the historical milestones of nurses' accreditation in the critical care area, a research was carried out at LILACS and MEDLINE, unearthing 16 publications, led to the 4 categories. In the USA, the CCNE and NLNAC focus on evaluating Nursing courses and educational institutions, whilst generalist nurses are evaluated by NCLEX, and experts are evaluated by professional associations. Accrediting nurses is also a matter of interest in Spain, Canada, South Africa and Australia.

Nurses' training in prehospital care.

The performance of nurses in prehospital care (PHC) assumes acquiring specific competences. The objectives of the present study were to verify nurses' opinion on theoretical knowledge and nursing skills necessary for the practice in pre-hospital setting and to analyze them according to their clinical practice. In this descriptive study, the opinion of nurses, from public pre-hospital care services of the City of São Paulo, was collected through a questionnaire and the data of the clinical practice using forms.